instruction set

<architecture>

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.

Last updated: 1999-07-05

Nearby terms:

instruction scheduling ♦ instruction set ♦ instruction set architecture

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