.... and that's exactly what it does: It measures "how fast the machine can busy-wait". Not really representing real performance.
There's actually "better" benchmarks around like Dhrystone or Sieve that measure execution time of (at least somewhat) real programs. Regards, Tobias > Am 08.02.2016 um 20:39 schrieb Peter Graf <[email protected]>: > > Am 08.02.2016 20:14, schrieb Marcos Cruz: >> En/Je/On 2016-02-08 19:59, Peter Graf escribió / skribis / wrote : >> >>> But BogoMIPS is not really a benchmark, the PC probably outperforms the >>> Q60 in practice. >> >> Is "CPU speed test" the right term? > > Yes, it is a measurement of CPU speed made by the Linux kernel when it > boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop. > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
