Section 11.4
Review Questions

The costs of relocation

  1. Define overhead.
  1. If a CSC-1 program completes in 20 seconds and the same program on another computer takes 30 seconds, what would the slowdown be?
  1. Expressed in terms of percent, what would the overhead be of a computer that uses run-time relocation and takes 27 seconds to complete compared to 22 seconds on an older computer?
  1. Why are we willing to put up with slower computers?
  1. What is the overhead introduced by modern operating systems today?