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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:20:56 +0200
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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To: Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: about interlagos
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Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> As you can see, although interlagos is the newest one which has higher cpu
> clock rate and higher cache size, the bogomips of interlagos is the lowest!
> I read that bogomips is not a true measurement,

Indeed it is not.

> but it senses as a speed meter.

It measures the speed of one particular delay loop.  Because such a busy
loop is pretty much the silliest thing you could do to a CPU, it does
not make sense to use it to measure overall CPU speed, or to compare
different microarchitectures.

> Any idea?

If you want to know how fast your code will execute, you have to measure
that code.  If you are too lazy to do this, search for a benchmark that
represents that code well; for general-purpose code, the gcc part of the
SPEC CPU benchmark probably comes closest.


Regards,
Clemens
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