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<p><a href="page.php?w=instructions_per_cycle">instructions per cycle</a>.</p>

<p><big> Definition </big></p>
<p>The average of Cycles Per Instruction in a given process  is defined by the following <a href="page.php?w=Weighted_arithmetic_mean">weighted average</a>:</p>

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<p>Where  is the number of instructions for a given instruction type ,  is the clock-cycles for that instruction type and  is the total instruction count. The summation sums over all instruction types for a given benchmarking process.</p>

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