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title: "Explain the characteristics of instruction and execution time?"  
description: "Explain the characteristics of instruction and execution time?"  
author: "Kalin"  
published: 2022-05-06  
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category: "troubleshooting"  
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# Explain the characteristics of instruction and execution time?

[Explain the characteristics](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96996/explain-the-characteristics-of-networking) of instruction and [execution](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/178/synchronous-and-asynchronous-command-execution-in-c-sharp-dot-net) time?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- **The following are some of the characteristics of instruction time:**
- The I-time is another name for the instruction time.
- The time it takes the Control Unit to retrieve an instruction from [**memory**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96701/explain-about-different-types-of-memory-in-operating-system) and load it into a register.
- The time includes the time taken for the CU to decode instructions and locate the relevant data.
- **The following are some features of execution time:**
- This is the time it takes the control unit to shift data from memory to the ALU's registers; the ALU is in charge of executing instructions on this data.

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