We are in violent agreement here. My point was just to note that the author apparently did not understand the difference between Dhrystone MIPS and "real" MIPS.

We are in violent agreement here. My point was just to note that the author apparently did not understand the difference between Dhrystone MIPS and "real" MIPS. He probably also did not understand that Dhrystone is an ancient benchmark that should not be used anymore. But that's what you get when don't do your own benchmarks but copy/paste numbers from marketing material...