What is the core concept behind instruction-level parallelism?
Instruction-level parallelism (ILP) is about finding and exploiting opportunities to execute multiple instructions from a single program thread concurrently. My work has focused on architectural techniques to achieve this, such as superscalar execution where the hardware dynamically uncovers independent instructions, and VLIW where the compiler explicitly bundles independent instructions into a single, long word for the processor to fetch and execute.
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