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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (91864)2/6/2000 8:44:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576164
 
Re: "Surely there is a limit to how far you can go in simplifying the units of work in the pipeline?"

When a processor switches tasks, all the pipeline gets flushed and the new instruction stream starts. At some point there must be a loss of overall efficiency with too deep a pipeline. Are we approaching that point?

EP