Improve performance and reduce millions-of-instructions-per-second (MIPS) usage.

提高性能和降低每秒百万指令数（Millions-of-Instructions-Per-Second，MIPS）。

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Finally, in what is probably the best, up-to-date measurement of national economic power, MIPS (millions of instructions per second), the United States share is 48% (Japan is second with 7% and Germany is third with 6%).

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