This meant our design required three clock cycles to execute one instruction.

这意味着我们的设计需要三个时钟周期来执行一条指令。

The write could be too late for the clock cycle to happen.

写入可能来不及时钟周期发生。

But this approach gobbles up a lot of clock cycles, and isn't particularly efficient.

但这种方法会占用大量时钟周期，而且效率不高。

In this pipelined design, an instruction is executed every single clock cycle which triples the throughput.

在这种流水线设计中，每个时钟周期都执行一条指令，从而使吞吐量增加了三倍。

Because the cache is so close to the processor, it can typically provide the data in a single clock cycle -- no waiting required.

因为缓存离处理器很近，它通常可以在一个时钟周期内提供数据——不需要等待。

In an ideal case, pipelining lets you complete one instruction every single clock cycle, but then superscalar processors came along which can execute more than one instruction per clock cycle.

在理想情况下，流水线让您可以在每个时钟周期完成一条指令，但后来出现了超标量处理器，它可以在每个时钟周期执行多条指令。

That function call is going to take a while, the equivalent of thousands of clock cycles, because mechanical printers are slow in comparison to electronic CPUs.

该函数调用需要一段时间，相当于数千个时钟周期， 因为机械打印机与电子 CPU 相比速度较慢。

So a " load from RAM" instruction might take dozens of clock cycles to complete, and during this time the processor is just sitting there idly waiting for the data.

因此，“从 RAM 加载”指令可能需要数十个时钟周期才能完成，而在此期间处理器只是闲置在那里等待数据。

So long story short, not only have computer processors gotten a lot faster over the years, but also a lot more sophisticated, employing all sorts of clever tricks to squeeze out more and more computation per clock cycle.

长话短说，多年来，计算机处理器不仅变得更快，而且更加复杂，采用各种巧妙的技巧在每个时钟周期中挤出越来越多的计算量。

One megahertz is one million clock cycles per second, and the computer or even phone that you are watching this video on right now is no doubt a few gigahertz -- that's BILLIONs of CPU cycles every… single... second.

1 兆赫兹是每秒一百万个时钟周期，而您现在正在观看此视频的计算机甚至手机无疑是几千兆赫兹——即每… 每秒数十亿个 CPU 周期。

For instance, modern computer processors now have special circuits for things like graphics operations, decoding compressed video, and encrypting files - all of which are operations that would take many many many clock cycles to perform with standard operations.

例如，现代计算机处理器现在有专门的电路来处理图形操作、解码压缩视频和加密文件等操作——所有这些操作都需要很多很多时钟周期来执行标准操作。