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Re: Few Questions





On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, Nir Yeffet wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> 1. How much Bogomips should pentium 90 have ? I got ~36 and my friend with
>  486DX100 got ~50 !!

These numbers are correct. The BogoMips calculation (actually a delay loop)
take no account of Pentium's abilities. 36 for 90MHz is good. 100 should
show something like 39.

> 2. What about pentium optimization - does anyone heard something ?

Yes. gcc 2.7.0 has (somewhere) -i586 flag. However, it still evaluates
to -i585.99934 (i.e. it is still buggy).

As to the above two questions and the two following:

RTFM RTFM RTFM RTFM RTFM RTFM RTFM RTFM RTFM!