bogomips

Tim Seufert yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Dec 1 03:31:01 2002


On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 01:27  AM, Owen Stampflee wrote:

>> Bogomips = MHz * 2 for all PPC procesors
> Not true...
>
> [owen@fred owen]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> cpu             : 603ev
> clock           : 200MHz
> revision        : 2.1 (pvr 0007 0201)
> bogomips        : 133.12

Another popular class of PPC which doesn't get 2 * MHz is the 7450 
family (aka G4+), which is what's in every Apple G4 system 550 MHz or 
faster.  I think it gets roughly 1 * MHz, but that's from memory.  This 
is not predictive of actual performance on real world code...