From: Grant Grundler <grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com>
To: Tom <palinux@alaskatech.org>
Cc: Peter Lavender <plaven@bigpond.net.au>,
parisc <parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] bogomips?
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:43:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020112224306.C73ED482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Tom <palinux@alaskatech.org> of "Sat, 12 Jan 2002 08:00:23 -0900." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201120757330.1989-100000@goliath.alaskatech.org>
Tom wrote:
> As a rough guess, my 715/100 feels like a Pentium chip of roughly twice
> the speed, while my C180 feels like a P2 of roughly twice the speed. Don't
> know if the bogomips back that up, but that's the way they feel.
I've heard that from a bunch of people and seems like a good rule of thumb.
Someone once told me: "bogomips is just a dick waving contest".
(apologies to any female readers who are offended).
But that statement accurately sums up how useful bogomips
is for comparing perf.
grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-12 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-12 11:10 [parisc-linux] bogomips? Peter Lavender
2002-01-12 11:35 ` kenneth westelinck
2002-01-12 15:16 ` Michael S.Zick
2002-01-12 16:36 ` Randolph Chung
2002-01-12 17:00 ` Tom
2002-01-12 22:43 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2002-01-13 8:53 ` kenneth westelinck
2002-01-13 10:12 ` Christian Suder
2002-01-13 11:25 ` Jochen Friedrich
2002-01-13 15:48 ` Michael S.Zick
2002-01-13 15:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-01-13 16:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-13 15:53 ` Michael S.Zick
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