What are the advantages of computer architecture?

Answer 1

Different computer architectures have different advantages for different types of problems, however all modern computer architectures are functionally equivalent and interchangeable although they are not identical in operation.

• the basic fetch-execute architecture has the advantage of being simple, but is often slow and inefficient
• pipelined architectures have the advantage of speed, but are still inefficient when performing conditional branches
• superscalar architectures have the advantages of speed and efficiency when performing conditional branches, but can be enormously complex to design and optimize
• massively parallel architectures have advantages in performing gigantic real world simulation modeling problems like weather prediction, aircraft design, nuclear weapon design, seismic and oil field data analysis, etc., but managing all of the independent processors in these systems and their data exchanges is a difficult problem to solve itself
• etc.

Answer 2

It allows all of the information to be in one location. This can speed up processes and ensure all information is ready at the right time.