Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:58:48 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: BogoMIPS revisitied...MMX |
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Gerard Roudier wrote: > > > I dunno, but I think I will buy more AMD chips ;) > > > > Indeed, you should, if the Bogo MIPS result is your preferred Linux > > application. ;) > > > > Gerard. > Wouldn't the branch prediction be bad no matter WHAT application you > are running?
In fact the branch prediction on such a small loop is rather good: who the hell can imagine that you really want to execute an empty loop? :-)
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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