Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: BogoMIPS? | Date | 5 Feb 1998 07:30:22 GMT |
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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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