Programming Language Pragmatics, Fourth Edition
Programming Language Pragmatics, Fourth Edition
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ISBN: 9780124104099
Author: Michael L. Scott
Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Chapter 5.5, Problem 39CYU

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Four principal causes of pipeline stalls:

  • Data hazards
    • An operand is needed by an instruction which has not yet been produced by an earlier but still executing instruction.
  • Cache misses
    • An instruction fetch or a load instruction may miss in the cache
  • ...

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