isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account) (08/27/90)
In article **No Attribution; not meant to flame authour, but subject*** writes: >Question: About how many MIPS does your average un-modified se-30 get? Who the **** cares how many MIPS a processor gets? it's not MIPS you care about at all, unless you are planning to use your machine to generate maximum speed square waves by toggling 1 bit over and over... [BTW, the answer is 8 MIPS, for NO-OPS out of cache] You don't use MIPS to compare anything, unless they are the same machine from the same vendor with the same compiler. MIPS stands for Meaningless Idiots Per Second. Use some standard benchmarks to compare diffrent processors. That's why somebody came up with the word "benchmark". MIPS are for marketing scumbags. Sorry for the flamage, it's not at the original poster, but at the concept of "MIPS". -- Mike Schechter, Computer Engineer,Institute Sensory Research, Syracuse Univ. InterNet: Mike_Schechter@isr.syr.edu isr@rodan.syr.edu Bitnet: SENSORY@SUNRISE