From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@e-steel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem in BOGOmips
Date: 09 Feb 2001 16:19:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ae7vlflj.fsf@shookay.e-steel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A6C802C.9380961A@earthlink.net> <Pine.LNX.4.04.10102100210150.12228-100000@csews12.cse.iitk.ac.in>
gashish@cse.iitk.ac.in (Ashish Gupta) writes:
> Hi,
> I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for
> different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo
> for different CPUs.
You got your answer. Try pronounce bogomips and you will hear bogo like in
bogus. The Bogomips don't represent anything but a way to have a good delay
mechanism... So you can't compare them between CPUs!
--
Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : mchouque@e-steel.com
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and
everything else follows in the same way.
-- Alan J. Perlis
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2001-02-09 21:05 ` problem in BOGOmips Ashish Gupta
2001-02-09 21:19 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer [this message]
2001-02-09 21:29 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-02-09 21:32 ` Brian Gerst
2001-02-09 22:18 ` Prasanna P Subash
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