From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 16: 2:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C8014DC7 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:02:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01709; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:19:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:19:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ollivier Robert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric In-Reply-To: <19990902223749.A41654@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Nick Sayer: > > Would anyone scream and projectile-vomit if I added this to identcpu.c? > > Yes. We are also FreeBSD users/developers because we don't follow the Linux > way. Bogomips are [as it says] bogus and many people acknoledge this but far > too often you see in some Linux list/newsgroup some dick sizing^W^Wbogomips > comparisons. oh, please... what do you call a "world-stone"? :) Seriously, I do agree with you that it's a bad idea. "Just say no to bogomips" -Alfred > > Here lies madness. > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #73: Sat Jul 31 15:36:05 CEST 1999 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message