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ILP and IPC are not the same thing. ILP (instruction-level parallelism) is the number of instructions executed in a non-stalled clock cycle. IPC (instructions per clock) is the average number of instructions executed per clock, including clock cycles spent waiting for main memory and recovering from branch mis-prediction.



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