1. A method, comprising: allocating an entry in a store queue to a store instruction in response to the store instruction being dispatched and prior to receiving a translation of a virtual address to a physical address associated with the store instruction, wherein the entry comprises storage for data to be written to the physical address by the store instruction; and in response to identifying that a load instruction in a load queue is associated with the store instruction, sending a wake-up signal from the store queue to the load queue to wake-up the load instruction, wherein the sending comprises sending the wake-up signal after allocating the entry in the store queue and prior to the entry receiving the data.