Pipelining Is Used Because It Improves Instruction Throughput

question 15

Essay

Pipelining is used because it improves instruction throughput. Increasing the level of pipelining cuts the amount of work performed at each pipeline stage, allowing more instructions to exist in the processor at the same time and individual instructions to complete
at a more rapid rate. However, throughput will not improve as pipelining is increased indefinitely. Give two reasons for this.

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