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The scoreboarding scheme is somewhat unsatisfactory because :
- It fails to perform forwarding - operands cannot be used until they have been
written to the register file.
- WAR hazards still cause stalls
Tomasulo's design deals with both these problems in an interesting way.
(H&P pp.251)
Paul H J Kelly
Mon Dec 1 20:07:28 GMT 1997