>> Its a 266Mhz ColdFire v4e machine, about 263 BogoMips, 1/20 the >> BogoMips of my workstation, and with an NFS rootfs, it gets network > >BogoMips are called BogoMips because they are not comparable among >different CPUs. All they measure is how often the CPU needs to run a >particular near-empty loop to delay a certain time.
I know exactly what a BogoMips is. >There usually is a small factor which can convert between BogoMips and CPU >MHz for every CPU model. It would seem to be 1 for your ColdFire; it >happens to be 1/2 for my Athlon (bogomips: 2287.20, cpu MHz: 1145.142). > >Comparisions like yours are worse than meaningless. I wouldn't call it meaningless. I don't have other benchmark numbers for the chip, and it was menat to show that it isn't a blazingly fast processor (as compared to desktop machines). -- Peter Barada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
