{"id":68,"date":"2020-11-26T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T21:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/?post_type=term&p=68"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:08:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:08:37","slug":"instructions-per-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/instructions-per-second-522816\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructions Per Second (MIPS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instructions Per Second is a metric by which a computer processor’s speed can be measured. It relates the number of instructions that a CPU can execute, counted in millions, within a given time period.<\/p>\n

Millions of Instructions Per Second is calculated by the following formula:<\/p>\n

\"mips<\/p>\n

Shortcomings<\/h2>\n

MIPS is a poor metric for performance has two notable issues:<\/p>\n

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  1. Instructions are not standardized between machines;<\/li>\n
  2. Non CPU delays such as I\/O and memory can impact overall execution time;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As reported by PC magazine in November 24, 1987; the MIPS metric has so many shortcomings that it is popularly referred to as\u00a0Meaningless Indices of Performance<\/em> (R<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Instructions Per Second is a metric by which a computer processor’s speed can be measured. It relates the number of instructions that a CPU can execute, counted in millions, within a given time period. Millions of Instructions Per Second is calculated by the following formula: Shortcomings MIPS is a poor metric for performance has two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[461],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}