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increases speed
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it goes to queue for next instruction
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In 8086 the instruction queue is 6 byte long. This is because even the longest 8086 instruction is 6 byte long. Thus it is possible to prefetch even the longest instruction in the instruction set.
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Queue is for fixed length communication where as pipes are varaible lenght. Queue is for fixed length communication where as pipes are varaible lenght.
The process of transferring instruction codes from memory location to instruction queue register is called opcode fetch.
An instruction queue is used in the 8086 to speed up the average time it takes to process an instruction. Some instructions are faster than the bus, while some are slower. If the CPU had to wait for all of the instructions, there would be gaps of time where the CPU is doing nothing. The queue helps to eliminate that gap by prefetching instructions in the hope that they will be ready for use when the CPU gets to them.