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This activity will get you familiar with performance measurement, instruction set architecture, and compiler. It should give you a general idea on how a compiler optimize software. In particular, you will learn how architect measure performance of a system.

We will use the free c compiler from the GNU free compiler collection (GCC) project. If you uses Linux or Mac OS X, be sure to install appropriate packets. (For Mac OS X, you may install X-code command-line tool.)

Exercises 1. (Instruction Analysis) This exercise will familiar you with several aspects of instruction set and the fundamental of compiler. Given max.c (below), please use "gcc-S max.c to compile the code into assembly code. (The result will be in max.s.) From the result, answer the following questions int max1 (int a, int b) return (a>b) ?a:b; int max2 (int a, int b) t int isaGTb=a>b ; int max; if (isaGTb) max-a; else max b return max; What does the code hint about the kind of instruction set? (e.g. Accumulator, Register Memory, Memory Memory, Register Register) Please justify your answer. Can you tell whether the architecture is either Restricted Alignment or Unrestricted Alignment? Please explain how do you come up with your answer Create a new function (e.g. testMax) to call max1. Generate new assembly code What does the result suggest regarding the register saving (caller save vs. callee save)? Please provide your analysis How does the arguments be passed and the return value returned from a function? Please explain the code Find the part of code (snippet) that do comparison and conditional branch. Explain how does it work. If max.c is complied with optimization turned on (using "gcc -02 -S max.c"), what are the differences that you may observe from the result (comparing to that without optimization). Please provide your analysis Please estimate the CPU Time required by the max1 function (using the equation CPI=ICxCPlxTc). If possible, create a main function to cal maxi and use the time command to measure the performance. Compare the measure to your estimation. What do you think are the factors that cause the difference? Please provide your analysis (You may find references online regarding the CPl of each instruction.)