5.8 - Speculative Execution
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Practice Questions
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What is speculative execution?
💡 Hint: Think about what processors do before certain instructions are confirmed.
How does speculative execution impact instruction-level parallelism?
💡 Hint: Consider how it optimizes the use of the processor's pipeline.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is speculative execution?
💡 Hint: Focus on the future aspect of instruction execution.
True or False: Speculative execution always leads to improved performance?
💡 Hint: Think about the consequences of wrong predictions.
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Challenge Problems
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Evaluate the impact of speculative execution on a multi-core processor design.
💡 Hint: Consider how each core can handle multiple paths of execution.
Explore how machine learning algorithms could enhance branch prediction accuracy in speculative execution.
💡 Hint: Think about the data-driven approach to enhance predictions.
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