Instructions a second

Instructions a second (most of the time million instructions a second , MIPS ) is a measuring unit.

It is the best unit to establish the comparative ones of power enter processors, even if FAILURES ( Floating-point operations per second ) should not be neglected.

An operation, of Floating-point type for example, is carried out by several instructions:

  • displacement
  • calculation
  • comparison

There exist 2 principal architectures: RISC and CISC, the number of instructions necessary to an operation varies for each one among it.

To compare 2 processors of the same architecture compared to the MIPS is a reliable measurement, that becomes more subjective between architectures.

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