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instruction set

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instruction set

The repertoire of machine language instructions that a computer can follow (from a handful to several hundred). It is a major architectural component and is either built into the CPU or into microcode. Instructions are generally from one to four bytes long.

instruction set [in′strək·shən ‚set]
(computer science)
Also known as instruction repertory.
The set of instructions which a computing or data-processing system is capable of performing.
The set of instructions which an automatic coding system assembles.
(architecture)instruction set - The collection of machine language instructions that a particular processor understands.

The term is almost synonymous with "instruction set architecture" since the instructions are fairly meaningless in isolation from the registers etc. that they manipulate.


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