From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 12:53: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9676B14D77 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26169 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:52:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:52:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199909021952.VAA26169@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Sayer wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > Linux generates a meric of CPU performance as a byproduct of calibrating > a delay loop. It's not a metric of CPU performance. It's just a meaningless number, and its relation to the actual performance of the machine is very questionable. > 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. It would break user's confidence in the seriousness of the system. > Would anyone scream and projectile-vomit if I added this to identcpu.c? I would, FWIW. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message