Practice Control Hazards In Pipelining (4.2) - Branches and Limits to Pipelining

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Question 1.
What is a control hazard?
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Think about what happens when the flow of control changes.
Question 2.
Why do control hazards affect performance?
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Consider the implications of waiting in a pipeline.
3Question 3.
What creates control hazards in pipelined processors?
- A lack of processing power
- Branch instructions causing uncertainty
- Overheating of the processor
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Consider what happens at a decision point in processing.
4Question 4.
True or False: Control hazards do not affect pipeline performance.
- True
- False
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Think about how waiting impacts execution.
Question 5.
Evaluate the role and effectiveness of different branch prediction methods in minimizing control hazards and propose a mixed approach.
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Reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of each method.
Question 6.
Analyze how modern processors mitigate control hazards through hardware implementations and algorithmic adjustments.
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Consider how hardware advancements have changed branch handling strategies.

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