> Don't rely on BogoMIPS for anything, especially predicting which system > will do your work faster. > > Bogo is short for Bogus; that should tell you everything.
Its an inaccurate measure of the time to sit in a tight loop counting. Its for delay loops, timer calibration and to provide a quick guide to people doing comparisons between the same CPU type. On newer x86 its not even that its a fixed relationship to the cpu clock. There are real mail, network, disk etc benchmarks around (eg dbench/netbench)
