Suppose you have a computer that has a $4-$stage pipeline and you have a workload that has

an input set of operand values of size $8.$ If each $*$stage$*$ takes one unit of time and that passing

results from one stage to the next is instantaneous, what is the average speedup in your

computer for this workload as compared to a computer with $1-$stage functional unit? This single

functional unit takes $2$ units of time to compute.