more smoothly. Furthermore, designers may target and add special features to their products, through hardware or software, that permit a specific benchmark to execute quickly but do not offer similar advantages to general tasks.

Power efficiency

Power efficiency is another important measurement in modern computers. Higher power efficiency can often be traded for lower speed or higher cost. Historically, the typical measurement when referring to power consumption in computer architecture was MIPS/W (millions of instructions per

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