Welp, I am still trying to figure out how an out-of-order scalar processor would work. The out-of-order execution part is easy enough, but I am having trouble figuring out how in-order completion would work. To this end, I am currently researching scoreboarding in the hopes of gleaning some hint as to how such a processor would work. If anyone knows of a processor which had out-of-order execution and in-order completion (different from commit), please let me know!


[size="3"]Research Questions

What is forwarding?
Forwarding is what you call the technique of passing the result of an instruction directly to a dependent instruction before the result is committed. This allows an instruction to execute before its operands are available in the register file.

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