[ale] Weird BogoMips Values

[Jim Popovitch]

I've always heard that BogoMips was shorthand for "Bogus MIPS", and highly
suspect/inaccurate when comparing two machines.

----- Original Message -----
 From: Michael A. Smith <masmith at bsat.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 9:01 AM
Subject: [ale] Weird BogoMips Values


> I have noticed some strange BogoMips values on my machines.  I have a
> Pentium 233 MMX that registers around 400 while my Pentium II 233 only
> registers around 250.  Both have comparable configurations with same
amount
> of memory and swap space.  Do you think that the older Pentium 233 MMX
could
> actually be faster than the newer Pentium II 233?  Strange.....
>
> Michael Smith
> mike.smith at bigfoot.com
>