MIPS

abbr.
million instructions per second

[abbreviation]

1. A measure of computing speed; formally, ‘Million Instructions Per Second’ (that's 10⁶ per second, not 2²⁰!); often rendered by hackers as ‘Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed’ or in other unflattering ways, such as ‘Meaningless Information Provided by Salesmen’. This joke expresses an attitude nearly universal among hackers about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids (see also BogoMIPS). The singular is sometimes ‘1 MIP’ even though this is clearly etymologically wrong. See also KIPS and GIPS.

2. Computers, especially large computers, considered abstractly as sources of computrons. “This is just a workstation; the heavy MIPS are hidden in the basement.”

3. The corporate name of a particular RISC-chip company, later acquired by SGI.

4. Acronym for ‘Meaningless Information per Second’ (a joke, prob.: from sense 1).

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - millions of instructions per second, million instrukser pr. sekund

Français (French)
n. - (abrév = million instructions per second) (Comput) millions d'instructions par seconde

Deutsch (German)
n. - MIPS, Millionen Anweisungen pro Sekunde

Ελληνική (Greek)
abbr. - εκατομμύρια εντολές ανά δευτερόλεπτο

Español (Spanish)
n. - un millón de instrucciones por minuto

Svenska (Swedish)
abbr. - Million Instructions Per Second

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
每秒百万条指令

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 每秒百萬條指令

한국어 (Korean)
n. - million instruction per second(1초당 100개의 명령, 연산 명령의 단위)

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(اختصار) وحدة قياس, سرعه إنجاز الأوامر في الكمبيوتر, مليون أمر في الثانيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יחידת מהירות ביצוע של מחשב השווה למיליון הוראות לשנייה‬

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