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pipeline processing

A Dictionary of Computing,  January, 2004  by JOHN DAINTITH

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pipeline processing A form of processing – analogous to a manufacturing production line – in which the time required to pass through some functional unit (e.g. a floating point ALU) of a computer system is longer than the intervals at which data may enter that functional unit, i.e.

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the functional unit performs its process in several steps. When the first step is completed, the results are passed to a second step that uses separate hardware; the first-step hardware is thus free to begin processing new ...

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