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From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: BENCHMARKS AND LIPS
Summary: LIPs ~ dhrystones
Message-ID: <429@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 88 14:24:10 GMT
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In various articles
>   The "LIPS" term is misleading, but it *is* a property of PROLOG (at
> least, as it is currently used).

it's true, it's even pretty much restricted to nai:ve reverse. think of
LIPS as comparable to Dhrystones rather than MIPS. bad terminology.
should've been called something like NRPS or Lhipstones.