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From: rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Hartill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Average cycles per instruction on *86
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.093127.17305@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Jun 91 09:31:27 GMT
Sender: rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Hartill)
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I read somewhere that the in an average piece of 386 code, an instruction
requires 4.5 clock cycles.
Not sure what 'average' is supposed to mean.

How many clock cycles for a '186 or '286.

It's the protected mode average clock cycles '286 and '386 that I need.


thanks in advance,
		rob 
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