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Question 7

The comment has been made that implementation of application-specific instructions in a processor can speed up an application by 20% to 1000%. Show how your results might support this comment based on analyses of your answers to Question 5 and Question 6.

Answer

The implementation of the instructions for the 68000 loop would be longer in machine code control sequences and the fetching of the instructions would take far more time.