Re: cpu arch performance
Daniel Reuter <reuter@Uni-Hohenheim.DE> writes:
> By the way: a Normal Pentium doesn't get 2 BogoMIPS per MHz. Read the
> Bogomips HOWTO ;-)
Ooops. Should've been Pentium MMX. On that old machine (that I used
before I got my 68k-Mac :-):
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~$ dmesg | grep CPU\\\|essor\\\|Bogo
Detected 261960113 Hz processor.
Calibrating delay loop... 522.65 BogoMIPS
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03
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Pretty heroic effort, counting every single Hz.
> P.S.: one more cite from the BogoMIPS-HOWTO
> "Why to pay attention to BogoMIPS:
> To see whether your system is faster than mine. Of course this is
> completely wrong, unreliable, ill-founded, and utterly useless, but all
> benchmarks suffer from this same problem. So why not use it? This inherent
> stupidity has never before stopped people from using benchmarks, has it?
> :-)
This is clearly out-of-date. Today's look-how-fast-my-machine-is
benchmark is Quake timedemo. Can't wait to install Quakeforge on my
Mac...I hope it supports the odd 640x870 resolution of the portrait
display :-)
Tschüß
Matthias
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