On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Chris Mauritz wrote: > They are called BOGOmips for a reason. It's a rather useless measure and > only designed to give a very rough estimate as far as I can tell. You also They don't even give that, it's just the timing of a loop. No, a Pentium MMX is not really 4 times as fast as a plain Pentium. :) Read the Bogomips mini-howto for more information: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/BogoMips.html Sketch - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
