How can a computer processor avoid wasting calculation cycles that it would otherwise use if it were just executing one instruction when it has many instructions running at once? What happened as a direct consequence of what they did in the preceding sentence should be stated.

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How can a computer processor avoid wasting calculation cycles that it would otherwise use if it were just executing one instruction when it has many instructions running at once? What happened as a direct consequence of what they did in the preceding sentence should be stated.

 

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