Re: Does Optimization Effect BogoMips Value?

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> Three identical Virtual Machines with three different compiler flags to
> compile the entire distribution, in this case, Gentoo 2004.1.
> 
> However, why are the Bogomips values different (up to +82 points
> different)?

It really doesn't matter for performance. A higher
bogomips value just means the system will spin more
delay loops to wait the same amount of time...

For more details, see http://funroll-loops.org/

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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