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Audio Help [mips] Pronunciation Key | million instructions per second: a measure of computer speed. |
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MIPS
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| MIPS
abbr. million instructions per second |
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| (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" |
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Monthly Income Preferred Securities - MIPS
Shares that are an interest in a limited partnership existing solely for the purpose of issuing preferred securities and lending the
proceeds of the sales to its parent company. MIPS usually have a $25 par value, NYSE listing and cumulative monthly distributions.
Investopedia Commentary
MIPS are
hybrid securities, combining features of preferred stock and corporate bonds. Hybrids can pay a higher rate of return than preferred stock because dividends are paid with pretax dollars, generating a
sizable tax break for corporations.
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See also: Hybrid Security, Preferred Stock, QUIPS
Also spelled: MIPS
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MIPS
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MIPS
1.
The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor executes instructions.
Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids.
The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes heard.
See also KIPS and GIPS.
2. VAX MIPS.
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[The Jargon File]
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MIPS
/mips/ n. [abbreviation] 1. A measure of computing speed; formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!); 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; among other things, they designed the processor chips used in DEC's 3100 workstation series. 4. Acronym for `Meaningless Information per Second' (a joke, prob. from sense 1).
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| MIPS million instructions per second |
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