The Single-Cycle Processor
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The earliest processor design ran as one bulky circuit on one clock — and since every instruction shared the cycle, the clock had to stretch to the slowest instruction in the set.
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A checkout lane timed to its slowest possible customer serves everyone at that pace.
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Simplicity paid rent in speed and power.