[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Barada) wrote on 21.05.05 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> Its a 266Mhz ColdFire v4e machine, about 263 BogoMips, 1/20 the > >> BogoMips of my workstation, and with an NFS rootfs, it gets network > > > >BogoMips are called BogoMips because they are not comparable among > >different CPUs. All they measure is how often the CPU needs to run a > >particular near-empty loop to delay a certain time. > > I know exactly what a BogoMips is. But it seems you ignore what it means. > >There usually is a small factor which can convert between BogoMips and CPU > >MHz for every CPU model. It would seem to be 1 for your ColdFire; it > >happens to be 1/2 for my Athlon (bogomips: 2287.20, cpu MHz: 1145.142). > > > >Comparisions like yours are worse than meaningless. > > I wouldn't call it meaningless. I don't have other benchmark numbers It's exactly as meaningful - slightly less, in fact - as just quoting the MHz of the chip. It doesn't tell anything interesting about what the chip can actually do with those MHz. > for the chip, and it was menat to show that it isn't a blazingly fast > processor (as compared to desktop machines). So quote the MHz and be done with it. MfG Kai
