I love reading old threads about computers. "Speeds of 200 MIPS and more are likely in the coming years." iPhone 5S? 18200 MIPS.
I don't know why we ever switched from mops or tflops to clock speed as the main unit of comparison. Instructions is so much better as a measurement
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I remember a very respected software person, who is usually very thoughtful and accurate with their words, mentioning on stage at a conference that 2.4GHz was 2.4 billion machine instructions per second and I actually said out loud "oh no please don't do that"
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Technically it does if the instruction is nop
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