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Your scale is off. At the moment it is still better to think of clock cycles as nanoseconds; it's still large tenths of a nanosecond. 1 cycle per nanosecond is
by jerf 3y ago
Your scale is off. At the moment it is still better to think of clock cycles as nanoseconds; it's still large tenths of a nanosecond. 1 cycle per nanosecond is 1GHz, so a modern processor has 2-4 cycles per nanosecond, in which it can do a lot, but not anywhere near 10 million cycles.
- Pannoniae 3y agoMy scale wasn't off, but I agree, it was quite misleading. When I said measured in picoseconds, I was thinking about 300-500 picoseconds roughly. However, CPUs can also execute more than one instruction in a cycle so effectively, you can have more instructions than cycles.