Glenn Coates has been a software engineer for nine years. For the last four years he has worked with mobile devices and Java developing products, such as smart phones, micro-browsers and digital set-top boxes. Glenn holds a degree in computer science and is also a Sun-certified architect for Java Technologies. He works for Vulcan Machines as a VM Architect developing a Java native processor called Moon. See www.KvmGuru.com.
It could be argued that the clock speed of a given processing platform enables you to estimate the execution time of a user application running on that platform. However, quoting figures such as MIPS (millions of instructions per second) are somewhat futile, since the execution of ...
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