Re: Does Optimization Effect BogoMips Value?

[Nagendra Singh Tomar]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> > Three identical Virtual Machines with three different compiler flags to
> > compile the entire distribution, in this case, Gentoo 2004.1.
> > 
> > However, why are the Bogomips values different (up to +82 points
> > different)?
> 
> It really doesn't matter for performance. A higher
> bogomips value just means the system will spin more
> delay loops to wait the same amount of time...


If it can spin more delay loops in the same time, then probably it can do 
more useful work also in the same time.


> 
> For more details, see http://funroll-loops.org/
> 
> 

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