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From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon Mar 27 13:23:57 2000

> Well obviously, but just because the BogoMIPS numbers aren't proportional
> to the exact speed, doesn't mean they don't still mean *something* about
> the relationship. The K6 system I'm typing this on gets 600 BogoMIPs and
> is low-end by today's standards, and whether or not it's actually 2/15 the
> speed, the Winchip is a whole bunch slower. That's all I meant.

The problem with that reasoning is that BogoMIPS aren't an absolute
scale of *anything*. There's a different "correction factor" that gets
used to scale the number depending on what kind of processor the kernel
thinks it's running on.

Given only two BogoMIPS numbers from two systems, it's not even possible
to infer which processor is faster to run the BogoMIPS loop.
Received on Mon Mar 27 2000 - 13:23:57 BST