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SubjectRe: BogoMIPS?
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980204164550.1205E-100000@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>
By author: James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The point of bogomips is to be able to run n*bogos to pause for n seconds
> exactly. Giving the sum of them is just a feature added to apease those who
> use bogomips for bragging rights. (Note that bogomips make very poor
> benchmarks: in real use, computers don't spend much time in empty loops).
>

Actually, they do (or HLTed on things that run real operating
systems), but people don't generally care about the performance
thereof...

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