A delayed branch can enhance the performance of a simple RISC processor, but it may not increase the performance of a superscalar processor. Why?

What will be an ideal response?


The concept of a delayed branch is effectively meaningless in a superscalar processor where instructions are
executed in parallel if they can be (without changing the program semantics).

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A. HTTP B. TCP C. HTML D. VRML

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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