Repeat instruction

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In computer instruction set architectures (ISA), a repeat instruction is a machine language instruction which repeatedly executes another instruction a fixed number of times, or until some condition is met.

Since it is an instruction that operates on other instructions like the execute instruction, it has been classified as a meta-instruction.[1]

  1. ^ Rossman, George E. (December 1975). "A Course of Study in Computer Hardware Architecture". IEEE Computer. 8 (12): 44–63. doi:10.1109/C-M.1975.218835. S2CID 977792., p. 50