On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:04:56 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:

>What does the statement
>
>| 1,000,000 instructions is 0.17% of a CP
>
>mean?  What are the dimensions of %

I don't know, but it would appear to be a gross oversimplification. Ted should 
know as well as anyone here that MIPS is meaningless, and that a snippet of 
code taken out of context doesn't tell much. We don't know why the OP was 
concerned, but that doesn't mean that his concern isn't valid.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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