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The
rate a computer “spins around”
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the
Fetch/Execute cycle is controlled
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by
it’s clock rate
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Current clocks run 2-3 GHz
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In principle, the computer should do one
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instruction per cycle, but often it fails to
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Modern processors try to do more than one
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instruction per cycle, and often succeed
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