MIPS & other benchmarks
29-Oct-92 22:31:07
Sb: #29676-MIPS & other benchmarks
Fm: John Toebes/SYSOP 70007,3467
To: Jim Dutton 72237,561
The point that you are missing is that the only thing that is the same for
both machines is the time that you are measuring. Perhaps if you were to
measure the EXACT SAME instruction on both machines you get a relative
comparison, but even the NOP instruction is different on the 68000 and 8086
(length of instruction relative to other operations). The best description
that I have heard of with using MIPS as a comparison figure is that of
measuring the speed of a car that has just run off a cliff. You might be
able to measure how fast the car is going (falling), but it ceratinly isn't
anything that you would use for comparisons.