RE: MIDRANGE-L digest, Vol 1 #1018 - 12 msgs

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's called MIPS.  Millions of instructions per second.

That is the standard.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Message: 1
From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com>
because that is slow.

<rant> I have found that most technical people don't look into what each
processor is designed for. I tell them that a G4 700 Mhz CPU can smoke a P3
1 Ghz (this was a while ago), they didn't believe me. When it reality in
pure number crunching, the G4 will out perform the Pentium 3, just because
of the architecture (64-bit vs. 32-bit). I would rather have a "standard" in
place that can be used to rate all processors under equal terms because Mhz
is NOT an acute