Computer Science / Unit 5 CS 0264 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pipelining
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The idea
Pipelining divides instruction execution into phases — fetch, decode, issue, execute, commit — each phase handing forward and taking the next instruction, overlapping as temporal parallelism.
In practice
A rail yard's stations service five trains at once, one per stage of the trip.
Where people slip
Smaller phases, all busy at once — the whole win.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
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