In literature computer architectures are frequently claimed to be highly flexible, typically implying there exist trade-offs between flexibility and performance or energy efficiency. Processor flexibility, however, is not very sharply defined, and as such these claims can not be validated, nor can such hypothetical relations be fully understood and exploited in the design of computing systems. This paper is an attempt to introduce scientific rigour to the notion of flexibility in computing systems.

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您的计算系统有多灵活

在文献中，计算机体系结构经常被称为高度灵活，通常意味着在灵活性和性能或能源效率之间存在权衡。然而，处理器灵活性并没有非常明确的定义，因此这些声明无法得到验证，也无法在计算系统的设计中完全理解和利用这种假设关系。本文试图将科学严谨性引入计算系统中的灵活性概念。