Section $1\mathrm{.}10$ cites as a pitfall the utilization of a subset of the performance

equation as a performance metric. To illustrate this, consider the following two

processors. P$1$ has a clock rate of $4$GHz$,$ average CPI of $0\mathrm{.}9,$ and requires the

execution of $5\mathrm{.}0$E$9$ instructions. P$2$ has a clock rate of $3$GHz$,$ an average CPI of

$0\mathrm{.}75,$ and requires the execution of $1\mathrm{.}0$E$9$ instructionsA common fallacy is to use MIPS $($millions of

instructions per second$)$ to compare the performance of two different processors,

and consider that the processor with the largest MIPS has the largest performance.

Check if this is true for P$1$ and P$2.$

$1\mathrm{.}12\mathrm{.}4[10]<1\mathrm{.}10>$ Another common performance figure is MFLOPS $($millions

of floating$-$point operations per second$),$ defined as