tlug: bogomips

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> nearly the whole price he's selling that SS2 for, without even counting
> the rest of it.  That would also be a pretty good speed increase.  My 1+
> delivers a blazing 24.88 bogomips, but Chris says his 2 packs an
> absolutely mind-boggling 39 bogomips :-)

And a P5-75 has around 29, and it's faster than either one of those
sparcs.  That's irrelevant, however, since bogomip comparisons are only
applicable on the same type of CPU - ie, comparing the result from an
Intel P5 to an AMD K5/K6 chip is pointless, as is comparing across
architectures.

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