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From: Robert Sexton <robert@kudra.com>
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Subject: Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric
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On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote:
> Linux generates a meric of CPU performance as a byproduct of calibrating
> a delay loop.
> We don't require doing any such thing, and so adding it would be purely
> cosmetic.
> However, I allege that cosmetic things aren't in and of themselves evil,
> so long as
> they don't break anything in the process.

I'd have to agree with the "Lets be more professional"  crowd.

How about as a LINT option?  "If you need something so banal, you can
turn it on yourself"

-- 
Robert Sexton, robert@kudra.com
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the
usual way.  This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody
thinks of complaining." -- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal


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