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From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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Subject: Re: any ideas about this crash?
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In freebsd.current Jordan K. Hubbard writes:

>> clocks (read: laptops and "green" PCs). The folks in Intel's P6 architecture
>> group were shocked when they heard about what we were doing with the internal
>> cycle counter..."It was never intended to be used that way!".

>So where to from here, a BOGOMIPS rating at startup? :-)

I'd agree to a BOGOMIPS rating at bootup, but only if we multiplied
the result by 1.5 in order to make a machine's bogomips rating under
FreeBSD significantly higher than the same machine under Linux, thus
"prove" that FreeBSD is heaps faster... :-)

Seriously, bogomips would likely be a pain in the backside if we attempted
to make it comparable to Linux, because if Joe User got 81.23 bogomips under
Linux and "only" 81.22 under FreeBSD, they'd just _have_ to write in to
complain to us how much slower it is.

(This is just like the users over here in *.au that phone you to complain
that a modem answered the modem call but didn't give them a login:
prompt because the machine was down and "wasted" their $0.25 flag-fall
local call fee. (Just like they've just blown an extra $0.25 to tell you
this))

>						Jordan

Cheers,
-Peter