System performance MFLOPS & MIPS

[Bohn Christopher A Capt AFRL/IFSD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ds10025@cam.ac.uk [mailto:ds10025@cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 7:32 AM
>
> Above terms are use to measure system & processors 
> performance. How is this
> calculated?

This time, the old "it depends on your application" doesn't sound so trite
=)

Count the number of instructions (for MIPS) or the number of floating point
operations (for MFLOPS).  Time your execution in microseconds.  Divide
#instructions (or FP ops) by #microseconds, and you'll get MIPS (or MFLOPS).

Take care,
cb
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