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



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