Re: Guaranteeing processing speed...

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 14:18:14 +0100

R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl said:
> Well, having an application request how much bogomips are available,
> and then tell the OS how much bogomips it will need is also less than
> ideal. The MPEG player will need to know the number of mpeg-mips and
> not bogo-mips.

The OS would have to deal in time, not *mips of any kind. It's up to the app
to calibrate the speed required for whatever it happens to be doing, and take
into account any variation which it might experience.

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