3.7 - Performance of Pipelining
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Practice Questions
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What is throughput in the context of pipelining?
💡 Hint: Think about how often instructions are completed.
How is latency defined?
💡 Hint: Consider the journey of one instruction.
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What is the primary benefit of pipelining?
💡 Hint: Think about the efficiency of processing multiple instructions.
Latency refers to the total time for an instruction to pass through the pipeline.
💡 Hint: Consider how long one instruction takes to process.
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Consider a system where latency increases due to stages in a pipeline. Propose a scenario when higher latency might not severely impact performance.
💡 Hint: Think about operations that don't depend on each other.
Evaluate a situation where pipelining may lead to diminishing returns on speedup. Discuss what factors cause this effect.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when instructions depend on one another.
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