The performance of a pipelined processor suffers if :

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Answer: D. all of the above — A pipeline can suffer when stage delays differ, when consecutive instructions are dependent, or when stages share hardware resources. Therefore all listed…

1. A.

   the pipeline stages have different delays

2. B.

   consecutive instructions are dependent on each other

3. C.

   the pipeline stages share hardware resources

4. D.

   all of the above

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