On 18-Jan-99, Tino Schwarze took time to write : > REMEMBER: BogoMIPS, are bogus only - they DO NOT tell you anything about > your processors real performance. So, I guess, the calibration loop used
but they at least tell you if you have something badly misconfigured.... > for calculation BogoMIPS is somehow broken if you compile 2.0.36 for 686 > instead of 586 (as advised in Help to "Processor type"). i compiled 2.0.36 as 686 and as 586 and that didn't make any differences with bogomips. Patrick