What is pipelining?
A technique where multiple instructions are overlapped in execution.
🌐 Términos en otros idiomas:
Pipelining is like an assembly line for CPU instructions. Instead of waiting for one instruction to finish all its stages before starting the next, a pipelined CPU starts fetching the second instruction as soon as the first one moves to the Decode stage.
graph LR
Center["What is pipelining?"]:::main
Rel_multiprocessing["multiprocessing"]:::related -.-> Center
click Rel_multiprocessing "/terms/multiprocessing"
Rel_concurrency["concurrency"]:::related -.-> Center
click Rel_concurrency "/terms/concurrency"
Rel_parallelism["parallelism"]:::related -.-> Center
click Rel_parallelism "/terms/parallelism"
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🧠 Prueba de conocimiento
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🧒 Explícalo como si tuviera 5 años
Pipelining is like doing laundry with a separate washer and dryer. You start the second load in the washer while the first load is still in the dryer. This way, both are working at once!
🤓 Expert Deep Dive
Pipeline hazards (Data, Control, Structural) can cause stalls or 'bubbles'. Branch prediction is essential to keep the pipeline full. A pipeline 'flush' occurs when a branch guess is wrong.