Re: BogoMIPS?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Feb 1998 07:30:22 GMT

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>
> 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...

-hpa

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