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SubjectRE: bogomips ???
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> Hi Nick.
>
> > On my Dell Pentium-II 233 MHz, I have 231.<mumble> bogomips.
> > So why do I have 358.<blarg> bogomips on my Pentium MMX 180MHz,
> > which is most definitely slower (if it was accidentally twice as
> > fast, I'd have noticed when compiling the kernel!) ? That
> > figure is the same in 2.0.36 and 2.2.2, btw.
>
> I can't find it at the moment, but I remember reading somewhere that
> the BogoMIPS values are NOT comparable between different processor
> families, and the P2 is a different family to the P-MMX.

Yep, this is true. Just as a note, for more information on BogoMips
(which btw, is Bogus Million Instructions per Second), check the
mini-howto at your local LDP mirror.

Jeremy Katz


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