MIPS

5 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  MIPS
       n : (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed
           of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS
           is 4,000,000 instructions per second" [syn: {million
           instructions per second}]



From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MIPS
       Microprocessor without Interlocked Piped Stages
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MIPS
       Million Instructions Per Second (CPU)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  MIPS /mips/ n. [abbreviation] 1. A measure of computing speed;
     formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not
     2^(20)!); often rendered by hackers as `Meaningless Indication of
     Processor Speed' or in other unflattering ways, such as `Meaningless
     Information Provided by Salesmen'. This joke expresses an attitude
     nearly universal among hackers about the value of most {benchmark}
     claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between
     hackers and {marketroid}s (see also {BogoMIPS}). The singular is
     sometimes `1 MIP' even though this is clearly etymologically wrong. See
     also {KIPS} and {GIPS}. 2. Computers, especially large computers,
     considered abstractly as sources of {computron}s. "This is just a
     workstation; the heavy MIPS are hidden in the basement." 3. The
     corporate name of a particular RISC-chip company. 4. Acronym for
     `Meaningless Information per Second' (a joke, prob. from sense 1).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  MIPS
       
          1.  Million instructions per second.
       
          The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor
          executes instructions.
       
          Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of
          Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways.  This
          expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most
          {benchmark} claims, said attitude being one of the great
          cultural divides between hackers and {marketroid}s.
       
          The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes
          heard.
       
          See also {KIPS} and {GIPS}.
       
          2. {VAX MIPS}.
       
          3.  {Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline
          Stages}.
       
          4.  {MIPS Technologies, Inc.}
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1996-03-01)