Chapter 2: The Role of Performance
1: Concepts Introduced in Chapter 2
2: Gauging Performance
3: Performance Terms
4: Performance Equations
5: N Times Faster
6: Measures of Clock Speed
7: Measures of Size of Data
8: CPU Time
9: Amdahl's Law
10: Other Popular Measures
11: Benchmarks
12: Figure 2.6: The SPEC95 CPU benchmarks.
13: Fallacies and Pitfalls