Call me drastic.. But I've had to argue the bogomips thing with many
people.. They seem to think that because increasing the clock rate
increases the bogos that they are a good benchmark.
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Paul Wilkins wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Vic wrote:
>
> > Heheh.. This is the exact same question I asked man, so dont feel to bad.
> > If you have the $$$ money then buy the K6. It simply out performs the
> > Cyrix in everything. The k6 is almost twice a fast (whne you look at
> > bogimips)
>
> Aaargghhh...
> people are STILL using "bogo mips" as a performance statistic.
>
> Bogo mips are _totally BOGUS_ !!!
>
> Read the Linux faq. Bogo mips are meaningless (and maybe it's time the
> name was changed to something that dosen't make people think of a mips
> rating - like "clock base" or something.
>
> Quote from the Linux faq
> Question 8.5. What is a BogoMip ?
>
> `BogoMips' is a contraction of `Bogus MIPS'. MIPS stands for (depending
> who you listen to) Millions of Instructions per Second, or Meaningless
> Indication of Processor Speed.
>
> The number printed at boot-time is the result of a kernel timing
> calibration, used for very short delay loops by some device drivers.
>
> As a very rough guide the BogoMips will be approximately:
> 386SX clock * 0.14
> 386DX clock * 0.18
> 486Cyrix/IBM clock * 0.33
> 486SX/DX/DX2 clock * 0.50
> 586 clock * 0.39
>
> Paul
>
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