Re: BogoMIPS doubling...

From: Henrik Olsen (henrik@iaeste.dk)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 06:05:12 EST


On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> > Surely though, being 2x out would not be good for lots of user-land apps
> > using this as a {rough, simply} processor power measurement.
>
> I don't think any applications are actually that broken.
Any applications using bogomips for an indication like that is broken
beyond redemption anyway and should simply be buried where they fall.

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