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title: "Instruction-Level Parallelism"
summary: "Instruction-Level Parallelism: a section of HPC, with nested pages under it."
date: 2026-09-11
author: hpcnotes
kind: note
parent: hpc
order: 3
tags: hpc
draft: false
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The core is a pipeline, not a calculator. Hazards, branches, and issue width decide the cycle count you thought was arithmetic.