Due Thursday February, 14, 10:00am
Q1. What part of the original execution of a program a task corresponds to?
Q2. What is the purpose of the task sequencer and what are the advantages compared to to simple instruction level sequencing?
Q3. What would be the worst case scenario in terms of performance for a Multiscalar processor? What kind of characteristics must the code exhibit? Do you think it will perform better or worse compared to a regular processor with similar capabilities as one of the processing elements of multiscalar?
Q4. Can you explain why Multiscalar does better for integer codes than for floating point ones?