Editing Instructions per cycle (section)

{{Short description|Average number of instructions executed for each clock cycle}}
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In [[computer architecture]], '''instructions per cycle''' ('''IPC'''), commonly called '''instructions per clock''', is one aspect of a [[central processing unit|processor]]'s performance: the average number of [[instruction (computer science)|instruction]]s executed for each [[clock cycle]].  It is the [[multiplicative inverse]] of [[cycles per instruction]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Patterson |first=David A. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/859555917 |title=Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface |last2=Hennessy |first2=John L. |date=2014 |publisher=Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, Morgan Kaufmann is an imprint of Elsevier |isbn=978-0-12-407726-3 |edition=5th |series=The Morgan Kaufmann series in computer architecture and design |location=Amsterdam ; Boston |oclc=859555917}}</ref><ref>
{{Cite book |last=Hennessy |first=John L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=57UIPoLt3tkC&dq=patterson+CPI+IPC&pg=PA253 |title=Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach |last2=Patterson |first2=David A. |date=2006-11-03 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=978-0-08-047502-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Stallings |first=William |title=Computer organization and architecture: designing for performance |date=2016 |publisher=Pearson-Prentice Hall |isbn=978-0-13-410161-3 |edition=Tenth |location=Boston}}</ref>