Branches
Big Fat
Expr1
Big Fat
Expr2
Big Fat
Expr3
cond
if cond then
else
Expr1
time step
Simultaneous
Instructions
BEQ
Expr2
or
Expr3
branch
delay
slot(s)
Branch penalty in terms of instructions
increases as machine parallelism increases
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