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Figure 3-26 Multiple pipelines

Cache When you send a program to the CPU, you run lots of little programs

all at the same time. Okay, let’s be fair here: you didn’t run all these little

programs—you just started your Web browser or some other program. The

moment you double-clicked that icon, Windows started sending many

programs to the CPU. Each of these programs breaks down into some number

of little pieces, called threads, and data. Each thread is a series of instructions

designed to do a particular job with the data.

Modern CPUs don’t execute instructions sequentially—first doing step 1,

then step 2, and so on—but rather process all kinds of instructions. Most

applications have certain instructions and data that get reused, sometimes

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