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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (155450)1/15/2002 2:03:36 PM
From: wanna_bmw  Respond to of 186894
 
Duke, Re: "Why is not MIPS used as a main measure of chip power??"

How does one effectively measure MIPS (millions of instructions per second)? Which instructions, and on which data, would it make a fair comparison? How would one standardize such a test, when all modern processors seem to handle instructions differently?

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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (155450)1/15/2002 2:09:12 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
"Why is not MIPS used as a main measure of chip power??"

It's been tried. MIPS is even used in the embedded market still. But consider the current situation for desktops. Would a tight, do nothing loop suffice? How about something that fits into the L1 cache? L2? Turn off the caches and run from main memory? Caches are only one complication.


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