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Re: bogomips



> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:24:46PM -0800, Oz Dror wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > I have a pentium-II 400Mhz and a pentium MMX 200Mhz
> > both have 400.59 bogomips
> > Why?
> > 
> 
> MMX doubles your bogomips.  MMX CPUs are evidently great at running
> empty loops.

Every Pentium II has MMX.  Anyway, for 166 and 300 MHz PII's I have seen
a bogomips value that approximately equals the MHz number.  So that
seems OK.

HTH,
Eric

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