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MIPS R10000 Microprocessor User's Manual - SGI TechPubs Library

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A. Glossary<br />

The following terms are defined in this Glossary:<br />

• superscalar processor<br />

• pipeline<br />

• pipeline latency<br />

• pipeline repeat rate<br />

• out-of-order execution<br />

• dynamic scheduling<br />

• instruction fetch, decode, issue, execution, completion, and graduation<br />

• active list<br />

• free list and busy registers<br />

• register renaming and unnaming<br />

• nonblocking loads and stores<br />

• speculative branching<br />

• logical and physical registers<br />

• register files<br />

• ANDES architecture<br />

<strong>MIPS</strong> <strong>R10000</strong> <strong>Microprocessor</strong> <strong>User's</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> Version 2.0 of January 29, 1997 A-369

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