The Pace Of Computing
Computers use electronic clocks to pace the F/E cycle
If the computer goes around the F/E cycle once per tick, then the rate of the clock (“ticks/second”) gives the number of instructions executed per second
hertz measures “cycles per second”
500MHz, specifies “500 million cycles per second”
In actuality the “one instruction per clock cycle” rule is
only an approximation … modern computers are very