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  From: Alex Wilkinson <valex@style.senet.com.au>
  To  : David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:24:56 +0930 (CST)

Re: Bogomips

What's the "bogo" for ?

- Alex 





On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, David Drury wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > What is a Bogomip a measurement for? I have an Athlon 550 which runs at
> > 552.14 Bogomips, what does this tell me about the processor or speed ?
> 
> The Gurus amoung us can provide much more information on MIPS, but it is
> a measure of "milions of instructions per second", but better known as
> "meaningless indicator of processor speed". Its a way of comparing how
> fast one processor is compared to another, but not realy one computer to
> another as many other factors affect a computer's speed.
> 
> cya
> 
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