Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Real compute cycles in a laptop?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 11/8/06, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
<SNIP>
> > It's pretty boring but it seems that you can sort of double the CPU
> > MHz spec and come pretty close to the BogoMIPS numbers. However that
> > doesn't take cache size into account so maybe BogoMIPS isn't even the
> > right thing to be looking at.
>
> bogomips is usually about double the cpu speed, but you can't count on
> that. I would imagine that cache size and fpu performance were
> significant factors.
>
> Let's assume this app of your is floating point intensive (fairly safe
> assumption), and doesn't use a heck of a lot of RAM or disk (already
> shown to be true). So now you need to rate the fpu of the various
> processors and machines around. So I would read reviews of various
> machines in computer performance mags where they publish sane
> benchmarks, to get an idea of what would be best
>
> alan

Yeah - makes sense. Thanks.

Back to Google FPU stuff.

Thanks for your inputs.

Cheers,
Mark
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