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List and briefly define some of the techniques used in contemporary processors to increase speed
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Among the techniques to speed up microprocessors, built into contemporary processors are the following:
• Pipelining
• On board cache
• On board L1 & L2 cache
• Branch prediction
• Data flow analysis
• Speculative execution
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Really helpful. Thanks for sharing.
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Can you please explain it please.
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