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Macroinstruction vs Microinstruction - What's the difference?

macroinstruction | microinstruction |

As nouns the difference between macroinstruction and microinstruction

is that macroinstruction is a macro while microinstruction is an extremely low level instruction indicating a tiny task a CPU is to perform.

macroinstruction

English

(Macro instruction)

Alternative forms

* macro instruction * macro-instruction

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) A macro.

    • microinstruction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an extremely low level instruction indicating a tiny task a CPU is to perform

    • See also

    *microprogram