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I believe what you describe are called pipes, not ports. EDIT: I was commenting on my day job, but what do I know :-) Reservation stations have ports, but the

I believe what you describe are called pipes, not ports. EDIT: I was commenting on my day job, but what do I know :-) Reservation stations have ports, but the multiple executions units are commonly referred as pipes.

blattimwind 9y ago
No. Basically, in one of Intel's execution engines you have a reservation station which is fed µops and allocates resources to each µop. A RS port is what connects ALUs, load-store units, vector units etc. to the RS.
BeeOnRope 9y ago
Perhaps on other architectures, but today port is used almost exclusively, including by Intel themselves.
banachtarski 9y ago
Out of curiosity, would you mind telling me about your day job?