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From: Darin Johnson
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00

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In article <33A07A...@kozi.com>, Erik wrote:
>MEANINGLESS!?  What is wrong with you?  MIPS is THE best way to compare
>processor power!  Not Mhz, not architecture, not number of diodes, not
>how many you can shove in your ass at one time, but MIPS because that's
>what it all boils down to.  You fool.

MIPS is short for Meaningless Indicator of Processor Performance.
Great for ignorant consumers, but useless when you're trying to
do real comparisons.  Like the old 386 specs from Intel that turned
out to have the MIPS rating based on a loop with only noops inside...
Instruction lengths are not constant, and don't do the same amount
of work.  This measure quickly went out of favor when RISC came out
(you couldn't compare a single VAX instruction to a single RISC
instruction), and that was, what, 13 years ago?

A *suite* of benchmarks is currently the best way to compare processors
from different families.

-- 
Darin Johnson
darin@usa.net.delete_me

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From: darin@usa.net.delete_me (Darin Johnson)
Subject: Re: Apple's Biggest Mistakes...
Date: 1997/06/12
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