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Re:Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large by vardump on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:11AM (#12318814)
0.02 MIPS for real? I'd expect about 0.005 MIPS from a design like that.

Many early CPUs took multiple clock cycles per instruction, anywhere between 2 and 10+.

So all instructions are executed in a single clock cycle?

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Re:Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large by vardump on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:34PM (#12322860)
To add, here's a nice table of Meaningless Instructions Per Second for different CPUs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second#Timeli...

It's pretty representative of 8 bit CPU true performance.

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