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Pipelining

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Pipelining divides instruction execution into phases — fetch, decode, issue, execute, commit — each phase handing forward and taking the next instruction, overlapping as temporal parallelism.

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A rail yard's stations service five trains at once, one per stage of the trip.

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Smaller phases, all busy at once — the whole win.