CS0447 - Pipelining, caching, superscalar, etc.

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What is pipelining?
Offsetting instructions so throughput is increased and they finish faster
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What is a cache?
A temporary holding area for recently-used data
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Why does caching helpful?
Temporal and spatial locality
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Temporal Locality?
fast to access
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Spatial locality?
Items in the array are next to each other
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What does the superscalar CPU do?
Finishes multiple instructions at once
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What happens with an out-of-order CPU?
We can reorder instructions to run in a more convenient order… at runtime