Multiple choice

Delayed branching can help in the handling of control hazards

For all delayed conditional branch instructions, irrespective of whether the condition evaluates to true or false

  1. The instruction following the conditional branch instruction in memory is executed

  2. The first instruction in the fall through path is executed

  3. The first instruction in the taken path is executed

  4. The branch takes longer to execute than any other instruction
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