CSE3101 Fall 2004 Final Exam, open book, open notes. Name _______________ 1. Circle T for True, F for False (5 pts each). ANSWER F Reading an array forwards is faster than reading it backwards. T If the same memory location is read twice in rapid succession, the second read is usually faster. F A conditional branch taken 50% of the time is faster on average than a branch taken 99% of the time. T If the throughput of * is faster than its latency, then ((a*b)*(c*d)) can be computed faster than (((a*b)*c)*d). F Priveliged instructions can only be executed in protected mode. 2-4: A vector dot product computes the sum of the pairwise products of arrays a and b of n elements, for example: sum = 0; for (i=0; i