From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 11:12:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from unix1.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (unix1.it-datacntr.louisville.edu [136.165.4.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A1E14D95 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k.stevenson@louisville.edu) Received: from homer.louisville.edu (ktstev01@homer.louisville.edu [136.165.1.20]) by unix1.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA33834 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:11:44 -0400 Received: (from ktstev01@localhost) by homer.louisville.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25399 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:11:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19990902141143.A21431@homer.louisville.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:11:43 -0400 From: Keith Stevenson To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric References: <37CEB68D.848BDAF8@sftw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <37CEB68D.848BDAF8@sftw.com>; from Nick Sayer on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:40:30AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote: > > Would anyone scream and projectile-vomit if I added this to identcpu.c? > I might. :-) Why exactly, except to keep up with the Linux kidz, do we need this? I recognize that this is solely a cosmetic change, but one of the things I hold over the heads of the Linux folks I deal with is the fact that FreeBSD is a professional quality operating system which doesn't need useless blinking lights like BogoMIPS. Chalk me up as one of the people who considers "Linux works like that" as a negative. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.stevenson@louisville.edu PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message