In reply to Liam Bedford's flatulent wordings,
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 03:55:21PM +0100, David Murphy came forth with:
> > Quoting <C45048E5BA68D011ACE708002BE623F204ED1712 at ilo-exc-1.ilo.cpqcorp.net>
> > by "McDaid, Aaron" <Aaron.McDaid at compaq.com>:
> >
> > > > Just want to gloat a bit :-)
> > > > 17880.32 BogoMIPS, yahoo!
> > > > <snip>
> > > > BogoMIPS : 1488.97
> > > > kernel unaligned acc : 17852
> > >
> > > you mixed yourself up a bit i think
> > > you only have 1488 BogoMIPS
> > > now who's gloating ;)
> >
> > Any chance of some real benchmarks?
> dunno, but someone on debian-alpha has a quad EV67 machine, which
> is similar, and it takes 20 mins for him to rebuild XFree86 4...
>> not sure how that compares, but the thing about alpha's is the
> ridiculous floating point (the 500Mhz 21164 with an optimized lame
> encodes mp3's in about 3-5 times realtime, without anything like
> MMX to help it)
Unfortunately a Pentium III 500Mhz with an optimised gogo will do about the
same
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