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What (who) is MIPS - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Mips; MIPS (disambiguation)
MIPS
Million Instructions Per Second (Reference: CPU)
MIPS
1. <unit, benchmark> Million instructions per second.
The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor
executes instructions.
Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of
Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This
expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most
benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great
cultural divides between hackers and marketroids.
The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes
heard.
See also KIPS and GIPS.
2. VAX MIPS.
3. <processor> {Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline
Stages}.
4. <company> MIPS Technologies, Inc.
[Jargon File ]
(1996-03-01)
MIPS
¦ noun a unit of computing speed equivalent to a million instructions per second.
Origin
1970s: acronym.
Examples of use of MIPS
1. The security company responsible for the event categorised each attendee as a VIP, a VVIP (Very Very Important Person) or an MIP (Most Important Person). The MIPs got driven around in Rolls–Royces with personalised number–plates.