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BogoMIPS

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Etymology

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From bogus and MIPS (“million instructions per second”).

Noun

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BogoMIPS pl (plural only)

  1. (computing, slang) A crude informal measurement of CPU speed, made by the Linux kernel while booting and used to calibrate an internal busy loop.
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