Quiz submission record for quiz5-2-2 at Thu Jul 22 10:52:25 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
A branch delay slot is when there is a branch condition in the pipeline and it causes a delay when the branch condtion fail.  This function help resolve the control hazard.

Your Answer for Question 2:
we can reduce the performance penalty by using a software to follow a load with an instruction independent of that load.

Your Answer for Question 3:
it will cause a structural hazard meaning that the hardware cannot support the combination of instructions that we want to excute in the same clock cycle.


Your unique submission ID is quiz5-2-2-cs61c-af-1090518745-710.