in addition to the complexities they add to every layer of the stack that ajross and alain94040 brought up, they're not all that useful in practice. i seem to r

in addition to the complexities they add to every layer of the stack that ajross and alain94040 brought up, they're not all that useful in practice. i seem to recall that they'd rarely be over 50% utilized and the majority of instructions in the delay slot were nops