What's Wrong with MIPS?
Why not rely on MIPS, MOPS, MACs/sec, MFLOPS…?
These metrics are simple and easy to measure,
but can be misleading. Questions to ponder:
- Just what is an "instruction" or "operation"? (or, when is 100 MIPS faster than 120 MIPS?)
- What's included in a MAC, and what if my
application does something besides MACs?