Kiloinstruction
Kiloinstruction is a unit of measurement used to count instructions in a program or workload, equal to 1,000 instructions. It applies the metric prefix kilo to the concept of an instruction count, which is itself a dimensionless quantity. Because instructions are a count rather than a physical quantity, 1 kiloinstruction simply denotes 1000 instructions, and larger counts may be described in thousands of instructions or as kiloinstructions (kI).
Usage and representation vary by context. In some software analysis and benchmarking tasks, especially in embedded
Kiloinstruction is not a direct measure of performance. Execution time depends on many factors, including the
See also: instruction count, instructions per second (IPS), MIPS, cycles per instruction (CPI). The concept aligns