Fallacies and Pitfalls
  • Fallacy: Pipelining is easy.
  • Fallacy: Pipelining ideas can be implemented independent of technology.
  • Pitfall: Failure to consider instruction set design can adversely impact pipelining.
  • Fallacy: Increasing the depth of pipelining always increases performance.
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