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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
What is throughput in the context of pipelining?
💡 Hint: Think about how often instructions are completed.
Question 2
Easy
How is latency defined?
💡 Hint: Consider the journey of one instruction.
Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation
Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What is the primary benefit of pipelining?
- Increased power consumption
- Increased throughput
- Decreased latency
💡 Hint: Think about the efficiency of processing multiple instructions.
Question 2
Latency refers to the total time for an instruction to pass through the pipeline.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Consider how long one instruction takes to process.
Solve 1 more question and get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
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.
Question 2
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.
Challenge and get performance evaluation