Practice - WAR (Write After Read) Hazard - Anti-Dependency
Practice Questions
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What is a WAR hazard?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens in pipelined execution.
Name one technique to mitigate WAR hazards.
💡 Hint: Consider how registers are managed in processors.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is a key implication of a WAR hazard?
💡 Hint: Consider the order of read and write actions in your response.
Register renaming is primarily a technique for what?
💡 Hint: Think about how registers help processors communicate and solve write issues.
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Challenge Problems
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Create a more complex assembly instruction set that can illustrate multiple hazards including WAR. Document how you would resolve these.
💡 Hint: Focus on how many instructions depend on the outcome of others; aim for succinctness.
Evaluate the effectiveness of register renaming in a hypothetical multi-threaded environment and illustrate with an example.
💡 Hint: Think of renaming as how people use different 'work IDs' in databases to avoid confusion in their roles.
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