Superscalar (2-way) instruction execution and a vector floating point unit were the highlights of this architecture.

In a pipelined architecture, instruction execution overlaps.

Unlike the software type (below), hardware interrupts are asynchronous and can occur in the middle of instruction execution, requiring additional care in programming.

The time taken by the instructions can be indicative of stalls in the pipeline during instruction execution.

In particular, trace semantics were updated to address parallel instruction execution and data transfers.

Loongson 3 adds over 200 new instructions to speed up x86 instruction execution at a cost of 5% of the total die area.

Although his (1936) model is ambiguous about this, Post's (1947) model did not require sequential instruction execution.

Because instruction execution is still restricted to the program address space, these processors are very unlike von Neumann machines.

The basic usages of linear pipeline is instruction execution, arithmetic computation and memory access.

The hardware, when enabled, continuously monitors instruction execution until specific conditions are met.