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M.E/M.Tech DEGREE EXAMINATION, JANUARY 2010
First Semester
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1. What is hazard? State its types.
2. Mention the techniques available to measure the performance.
9. What is dynamic scheduling?
:. Give the limitation of IL.
;. !istinguish bet"een hard"are and soft"are speculation mechanisms.
. What is multithreading?
(. !efine cache miss penalty?
10. What is #$I!?
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11. %a&'o" does one classify IS$? !iscuss their design issues. 1
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%b&What are the "ays available to measure the I+( performance? )*plain each of them in
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