RE: Athlon/FIC SD11

["W. John Guineau" <guineau earthlink net>]

The timing loops aren't "real code" ?? :) :)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Larson [mailto:rlarson monmouth com]
> Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 7:27 AM
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Athlon/FIC SD11
>
>
> All bogomips does is measure the speed at which a timing loop
> used in various system wait functions executes.
>
> It has nothing to do with how fast real code executes.
>
> > Why such a disparity in the bogomips? Don't know. But I really
> prefer thinking
> > of bogomips as a "Twilight's Zone"'s measure of performance =).
>
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