Practice - Control Hazards
Practice Questions
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What is a control hazard?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when a program decides to jump to a different part of code.
Name one technique to manage control hazards.
💡 Hint: Focus on how the system guesses future instructions.
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What are control hazards?
💡 Hint: Think about instructions that alter the flow of a program.
True or False: Speculative execution only executes the predicted branch path.
💡 Hint: Consider situations where outcome is uncertain.
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Challenge Problems
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In a CPU implementation, if two consecutive branch instructions are encountered, what strategies can be used to maintain pipeline efficiency, and what potential problems could arise?
💡 Hint: Consider the interplay of predictions between instructions.
Consider a program with multiple branches. Analyze how performance metrics might differ between a pipelined architecture using branch prediction and one using only pipeline stalls.
💡 Hint: Think about how each method affects execution timing.
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