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Reducing average CPI might not improve performance?
- A better instruction set might enable much useful work to
be done using a single instruction
- A better compiler might make better use of
such long-running instructions
- By breaking instruction processing down into more
steps, it might be possible to simplify each stage
-- so that the clock can run faster
Paul H J Kelly
Mon Nov 17 01:29:59 GMT 1997