On 2011-Aug-10 07:13 , Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
Do sun4m systems actually benchmark the CPU within OBP? From Artyom's blog for example, it appears that OBP attempts to benchmark the CPU since its speed is listed as over 1GHz in QEMU in the Solaris kernel -v output which makes me feel that it does.
Ahh... Some of the FCodes do, as I recall. They needed to calibrate empty do loops so they could get higher-resolution timing waits than 1 millisecond.