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Register Renaming

Register renaming is a technique used to allow multiple execution paths without conflicts between different execution units trying to use the same registers. Instead of just one set of registers being used, multiple sets are put into the processor. This allows different execution units to work simultaneously without unnecessary pipeline stalls.

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