Mips (Noun)
Meaning
(computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second".
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The processor's speed was measured in millions of instructions per second, or MIPS, to give a sense of its performance.
- The computer's CPU was only capable of executing 2 MIPS, making it much slower than its competitors.
- In the 1980s, a 1 MIPS processor was considered fast, but by the 1990s, that had increased to 10 MIPS or more.
- The embedded system required a CPU that could execute at least 0.5 MIPS to run the necessary applications.
- The old computer's 0.25 MIPS processor struggled to run even the simplest of programs, let alone anything more complex.