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pipeline depth

How many stages a pipeline has. More stages allow a shorter cycle, but a wrong branch guess then throws away more work.

Pipeline depth is the number of stages an instruction passes through; deeper pipelines shorten the cycle time but raise the cost of each stall and flush, and gain less per added stage because of register overhead and imbalance.

See also

pipeline stall pipelining
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