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Subject: Re: problem in BOGOmips
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gashish@cse.iitk.ac.in (Ashish Gupta) writes:

> Hi,
> 	I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for
> different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo
> for different CPUs.

You got your answer. Try pronounce bogomips and you will hear bogo like in
bogus. The Bogomips don't represent anything but a way to have a good delay
mechanism... So you can't compare them between CPUs!
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Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER              E-Mail : mchouque@e-steel.com
     Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and
               everything else follows in the same way.
                        -- Alan J. Perlis
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