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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: MIPS and MHz
- Keywords: RISC, MIPS, cps
- Message-ID: <BxMn1J.GB3.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 23:39:18 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.BxMn1J.GB3.2
- References: <1992Nov12.183424.29331@boole.uucp>
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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- NetCmmnd@boole.uucp (System Administrator) writes:
- >How can a non-superscalar implementation at 50MHz run 59.1 MIPS?
- >I thought the holy grail of RISC was 1 instruction retired per cycle
- >and that this is never attained (much less exceeded) in a non-
- >superscalar implementation.
-
- Correct, for reasonable measures of MIPS.
-
- However, "Dhrystone 1.1 MIPS" have ceased to be reasonable. The
- "MIPS" is calculated by assuming that the VAX 11/780 was 1 MIPS, and
- then taking an execution-time ratio versus a historical VAX value.
-
- As compilers have improved (and have acquired Dhrystone-1.1-specific
- optimizations), the D-MIPS ratings have inflated beyond reason.
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- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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