Re: [newbie] BogoMIPS

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Martin White wrote:

> My PIII 450 gives out approx 453BMIPS - i expected considerably more than
> this as i've seen 450 from a Dell 233 system before.
> 
> Finally, does it matter ? Or should i take this as an indication of a
> problem ?

No - it's just the fact that some processors execute an idle loop faster
than others. It's not much of an indication of the real system speed.

LLaP
bero

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