[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Mike Meredith]

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 12:09 pm, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:04 AM, Mike Meredith wrote:
> > I wouldn't be surprised if it is true ... MIPS is hardly a speed
> > demon anymore.
>
>    Umm, compared to what, exactly?  These are the numbers that I see.
>
> proc			clock	SPECint	/cyc	SPECfp	/cyc
> -----------------------------------------------------
> R12000			 400	353		0.882	407		1.017
> R14000			 500	427		0.854	463		0.926
> PA-8700			 750	604		0.805	576		0.768

Don't those figures show that MIPS whilst the most 'efficient', isn't 
the fastest ? Or am I missing something ?

I certainly wasn't aiming to say that MIPS are dog slow, but that they 
aren't the fastest possible CPU you can buy.