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• machoflops /mach'oh-flops/ n. [pun on `megaflops'
  a coinage for `millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second'] Refers to artificially inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers....
• Your mileage may vary: [from the standard disclaimer attached to EPA mileage ratings by American car manufacturers] cav.
  1. A ritual warning often found in UNIX freeware distributions....
• benchmark: [techspeak] n. An inaccurate measure of computer performance.
  In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lie...
• At that time [the 1960s], Bell Laboratories scientists projected that computer speeds as high as 30 million floating-point calculations per second (megaflops) would be needed for the Army's ballistic missile defense system.
  Many computer experts -- including a National Academy of Sciences panel -- said achieving such speeds, even using multiple processors, was impossible....
• MIPS: /mips/ [abbreviation] n. 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• crank: [from automotive slang] vt. Verb used to describe the performance of a machine, especially sustained performance.
  This box cranks (or, cranks at) about 6 megaflops, with a burst mode of twice that on vectorized operations....
• Your own mileage may vary.
• benchmark n. [techspeak] An inaccurate measure of computer performance.
  In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lie...
• Your mileage may vary cav. [from the standard disclaimer attached to EPA mileage ratings by American car manufacturers] 1.
  A ritual warning often found in Unix freeware distributions....