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Hidden productivity losses in computer systems

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Based on an analysis of procedures of access to memory cells of computers and distributed computer systems (CSs), an estimate is given for time expenditures for address formation that do not belong to the category of direct expenditures for information processing in a processor and, hence, fall into the category of expenditures determining “hidden productivity losses” in a CS. Recommendations on the elimination of such losses during the creation of a CS are given.

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Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 2, pp. 147–160, March–April 2007.

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Yakovlev, Y.S. Hidden productivity losses in computer systems. Cybern Syst Anal 43, 281–290 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-007-0047-5

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