CPU Pipelining - The cool way your CPU avoids idle time!

The CPU is complex, so as you can imagine, optimizations exist to ensure that it runs as efficiently as possible without idling. In today's episode, we look at the pipeline - An ingenious optimization technique, but also one that comes with a set of caveats and gotchas!

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00:00 Opening
01:07 CPU Basics - Instructions
01:22 Stages of an Instruction
03:32 Idle Time
04:16 Introduction to Pipelining
05:09 Introduction to Hazards
05:51 Example: Read-After-Write Hazard
06:41 Pipeline Stalls
07:24 Operand Forwarding
08:18 Out-of-Order Execution
10:20 Dealing with Branching
11:27 The Problem and Pipeline Flush
12:14 Branch Prediction
14:20 Conclusion

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