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From: EURO29@FR29RA.#29.FBRE.FRA.EU
To  : PC@WW


Hello,

The  title is misleading, it only talks about the CPU, not the memory, disk
or I/O subsystem. All together they from the computer, not the CPU alone.

>CPU name: The name of the processor tested.
>
>Mips   : Million instructions per second.

You  know  where  MIPS  stands  for: Misleading Interpretation of Processor
Speed.

>OS     : Operating system used when the test was

Now  what has your OS to do with the ammount of instructions your processor
can process in a second!

Now I took two CPU's from the list:

>PENTIUM PRO200         199.32          LINUX
>SPARC ULTRA2           596.00          SOLARIS

Here   you   compare  a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) with a RISC
(Reduced  Instruction  Set  Computer).  A CISC does in one instruction much
more than a RISC. So the PRO200 does 199.32 million complex instructions in
one  second and the SPARK-U2 596.00 million simple instructions per second.
Which  one  is faster? You cannot tell that from these measurements at all.
Maybe  the one complex instruction does the same as 4 RISC instructions, in
which  case  the  Prentium  PRO200 is much faster than the SPARK. But maybe
not, you can't tell from these figures.

Also  the  mix  of instructions is not specified. Do the instruction run in
internal  cache  or  also  external.  What memory is used, DRAM, EDO-RAM or
SDRAM.  Does the code contain much loops, utilizing the cache or is it just
avoid  any  caching.  Are  there  also  floating  point instruction or just
integer math.


Well,  I  could  go  on  but  I  suggest you just throw this rubbish in the
nearest  recycle-bin  you can find and never be fooled by it again. Let the
acronym  MIPS  work as an alarm-bell, as soon as you here it chances are 99
to 1 that it is just a lot of crap from somebody  who doesn't know where he
is talking about.

Kind regards