Assume the miss rate of an instruction cache is 4% and the miss rate of the data cache is 5%. If a processor has a CPI of 3 without any memory stalls, and the miss penalty is 50 cycles for all misses, determine how much faster a processor would run with a perfect cache that never missed. Assume the frequency of all loads and stores is 44%

Assume the miss rate of an instruction cache is 4% and the miss rate of the data cache is 5%. If a processor has a CPI of 3 without any memory stalls, and the miss penalty is 50 cycles for all misses, determine how much faster a processor would run with a perfect cache that never missed. Assume the frequency of all loads and stores is 44%

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