Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!amdahl!pyramid!prls!mips!mash From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: MIPS and LIPS Message-ID: <1176@winchester.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 87 08:59:50 GMT References: <3587@husc6.harvard.edu> Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 23 In article <3587@husc6.harvard.edu> reiter@harvard.UUCP (Ehud Reiter) writes: >I recently saw a videotape made by a VP at Apollo (I forget his name), who >talked not only about "MIPS" and "MFLOPS", but also about "LIPS".... .... >used a very misleading PROLOG term to characterize an summary statistic of >LISP programs, and a summary statistic which was forbidden by the author of >the benchmark suite he claimed to use. >By comparison, the MIPS debate is a fountain of clarity ... Consider how heavily LINPACK MFLOPS get used, noting that Dongarra's LINPACK report says: ``The timing information presented here should in no way be used to judge the overall performance of a computer system. The results reflect only one problem area: solving dense systems of equations using the Linpack [1] programs in a Fortran environment.'' Well, 1 out of 3 isn't bad, I guess [if that were true...sigh]. -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086