BogoMIPS (Re: [plug] Bogus Sound Card Problems)

[Matt Kemner]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 bburns at erggroup.com wrote:

> BUT:  Is it running through the same timing loop, implying that at least for
> THIS calculation - there is a 5 times speed increase??

No, the timing loop is only used inside the kernel - it uses the same
loop for timing-related functions (like sleep() but on a kernel level) 

As Tony said, the way it is calculated changed recently, but so long as
all parts of the kernel use the same new function (which they do) it makes
no difference in speed anywhere else.

All it means is that your computer now takes a much shorter time to "do
nothing" (It's an empty loop)

hence the Bogo (bogus) part of BogoMIPS.

 - Matt (1867.78 BogoMIPS and proud of it)