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SLR2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Less memory is required
    - - Having so many instructions requires a large and complex CPU with many transitors
        
        Transistors generate a lot of heat which means that CISC CPUs need additional cooling. they are often built with a heat sink and/or fan which makes them larger than RISC CPUs
  - - - This means that the CPU can access and process the instruction faster.
    - - Also, fewer transistors means a lower power consumption, less heat and lower cost.
      - So RISC CPUs tend to be smaller in physical size than CISC CPUs.
- - - - Multi-tasking is the ability to carry out more than one task at the same time. With two cores, a CPU can run two tasks simultaneously. A quad core CPU can handle four simultaneous tasks.
    - - Parallel processing is when a single program is split into two or more parts and each part is processed at the same time. In theory this would double performance on a dual core CPU as each part is processed independently.
      - However, you do not always get twice the performance because many programs cannot be split neatly into two independent parts. This is because they are mostly sequential and each task has to rely on an output from the one before