Messages in this thread |  | | From | Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <> | Subject | Re: problem in BOGOmips | Date | 09 Feb 2001 16:19:04 -0500 |
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gashish@cse.iitk.ac.in (Ashish Gupta) writes:
> Hi, > I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for > different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo > for different CPUs.
You got your answer. Try pronounce bogomips and you will hear bogo like in bogus. The Bogomips don't represent anything but a way to have a good delay mechanism... So you can't compare them between CPUs! -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : mchouque@e-steel.com Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. -- Alan J. Perlis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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