Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 1999 23:16:57 +0100 (BST) | Subject | RE: bogomips ??? |
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Hi,
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:58:27 +0200, BROWN Nick <Nick.BROWN@coe.fr> said:
> On my Dell Pentium-II 233 MHz, I have 231.<mumble> bogomips. So why do I > have 358.<blarg> bogomips on my Pentium MMX 180MHz, which is most definitely > slower (if it was accidentally twice as fast, I'd have noticed when > compiling the kernel!) ?
See, I _said_ it was a bogus measurement of performance!
It only measures the speed of a single delay loop. That can be profoundly affected by seemingly small details of the CPU's internal implementation. It has been known for the bogomips to almost double in value after the insertion of a no-operation assembler instruction into the delay loop: it just depends on how that affects the CPU pipeline.
--Stephen
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