RE: What's a CPU second?

MSUs - See http://www.isham-research.co.uk/dd.html#msus

MIPS - See http://www.isham-research.co.uk/dd.html#mips


Are they about the same thing? Not exactly, but I'll leave it for you to
decide.

They both have been applied as indicators of performance, MIPS as a
service provider and MSUs as a service consumer. Oh, MSUs also comes in
two flavors: hardware and software. <grin>


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And in each of the answers to the OP, I never saw the term MIPS used.
I >saw the term MSU a lot. Are they about the same thing?



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