MIPS: Millon Instructions per second, 每秒钟指令执行速度。
时钟频率:
早期的电脑,大约每个指令需要15个时钟周期,而现在只需要1~2个时钟周期。
这是因为,现在CPU使用pipeline的技术。虽然每条指令仍需要多个时钟周期来完成,
“In a pipelined architecture, instruction execution overlaps. So even though it might take five clock cycles to execute each instruction, there can be five instructions in various stages of execution simultaneously. That way it looks like one instruction completes every clock cycle.”
64-bit CPU的好处:
1. 内存地址空间扩大,32位CPU内存大小限制2GB
2. 64-bit微机能够提供更快的I/O速度
对于普通用户,64微机带来的好处并不多。
参考:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/microprocessor.htm
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