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Originally posted by Dave Hurt
CISC processors take a problem and crunch the entire thing. Because of this, a CISC processor has a large number of instruction sets to choose from, and takes more time per clock cycle. But, when it decides what to do with it, it can crunch the entire thing at once, instead of little pieces.
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Small inaccuracy. Many (most?) CISC instructions take more than one clock cycle to complete. So you're right to say that it takes more time, but not more time per cycle, just more cycles.
Mike