Multiple choice

Which of the following is not done in instruction pipeline technique?

  1. Dealing with hazards by stalling

  2. Keeping all portions of the processor occupied

  3. Splitting each instruction into a sequence of dependent steps

  4. Reducing the time to complete an instruction

  5. Enableing complex operations more economically
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Explanation

An instruction pipeline is a technique used in the design of computers to increase their instruction throughput (the number of instructions that can be executed in a unit of time). Pipelining does not reduce the time to complete an instruction, but increases instruction throughput by performing multiple operations in parallel.

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