>
> This is a question I was wondering about. Why do the AMD chips
> usually return a double MHZ value? Are they really twice as
> fast as an Intel chip when checking the loop you mentioned?
>
> Daniel
>
In the simple loop, they may very well may be. However, this loop
really has very little to do with the overall performance of the
system, hense the 'Bogo' part.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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