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Instead of just 5-8 pipe stages why not have, say, a pipeline with 50 pipe stages?

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The latency of the architecture increases with the pipeline stages. Penalty due to the flushing of the pipeline for instance will also increase Cycles Per Instruction of the CPU architecture

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