Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!babbage!mac3n 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 References: <1740MLWLG@CUNYVM> <746@quintus.UUCP> <595@mqcomp.oz> <1219@cps3xx.UUCP> Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 7 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.