BogoMips mini-Howto
Wim van Dorst, WvD@clifton.nl
2006-03-02, version V38
| Revision History | ||
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| Revision v38 | 2006-03-02 | |
| Added legal stuff, updated and enhanced revhistory, various improvements to the XML markup, general text editing, plenty of new entries and some corrections, and a new highest (6800.58), which is the real reason for a new update; added new section; added the translators' names; added a colofon; added birthdate of BogoMips (11 July 1993). | ||
| Revision v34 | 2003-08-07 | |
| __ Jubilee edition: ten years of existence of the BogoMips mini-Howto. Ratings have now reached new peaks over 6000 BogoMips | ||
| Revision somehow numbered 1.2 | 1999-11-12 | |
| Revision unnumbered publication. Probablye the first Linuxdoc SGML version. Highest just over 900 | 1999-02-08 | |
| Revision First publication | Late 1993 | |
| __ named BogoMips Information Sheet, well before the term Howto and mini-Howto were coined. Does anyone still have a copy of this text for me, please? Plain Ascii list. | ||
The mini-howto text gives information about BogoMips, compiled from various sources such as news and e-mail. New BogoMips entries for the mini-Howto, notably for unlisted CPUs, will be highly appreciated. They can be sent by e-mail to the author Wim van Dorst
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Colofon
- 2. The highest and lowest BogoMips ratings
- 3. The frequently asked questions about BogoMips
- 3.1. What are BogoMips
- 3.2. How to estimate what the proper BogoMips rating should be
- 3.3. How to determine what the current BogoMips rating is
- 3.4. Variations in BogoMips rating
- 3.5. New BogoMips algorithm?
- 3.6. BogoMips ... failed
- 3.7. What about clone CPUs (Cyrix, NexGen, AMD, etc)
- 3.8. Why to pay attention to BogoMips
- 4. Compilation of ratings
- 4.1. 386 systems: SX, DX, Nexgen
- 4.2. Oddly or faultily configured 386 systems
- 4.3. 486 systems
- 4.4. Oddly or faultily configured 486 systems
- 4.5. 486 variations: Cyrix/IBM, UMC, Intel Overdrive
- 4.6. Pentium systems
- 4.7. Oddly or faultily configured Pentium systems
- 4.8. Pentium variations: Intel (MMX, Pro, II, Celeron, III, 4, M)
- 4.9. Pentium variations: Cyrix, AMD (K5/K6/K7, Duron, Athlon, Opteron), Centaur
- 4.10. Alpha systems
- 4.11. Motorola systems
- 4.12. Sparc systems
- 4.13. PowerPC systems
- 4.14. Other CPU systems: Mips, Intel 8088/286 ELKS, IBM, Transmeta Crusoe, PA-RISC, Hitachi SH, Arm and StrongArm, iDragon, Vax, CRIS Etrax, XScale, Rise
- 4.15. Dual-CPU systems (SMP2, hyperthreading, Dual core)
- 4.16. Multi-CPU systems (SMP4, Beowulf, others)
- 4.17. Non-Linux systems (reference only)
- 5. Signature
Copyright © 1993—2006 Wim van Dorst, GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being Introduction, The highest and lowest BogoMips ratings, The frequently asked questions about BogoMips, Compilation of ratings, and Signature, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover texts. A copy of the licence can be retrieved from the Free Software Foundation.
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