mhz - calulate processor clock rate
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Description
mhz calculates the processor clock rate and megahertz. It uses an unrolled, interlocked loop of adds or
shifts. So far, superscalarness has been defeated on the tested processors (SuperSPARC, RIOS, Alpha).
Name
mhz - calulate processor clock rate
Output
Output format is either just the clock rate as a float (-c) or more verbose
39.80Mhz,25nanosecclockmhz is described more completely in ``mhz: Anatomy of a microbenchmark'' in Proceedingsof1998USENIXAnnualTechnicalConference,June1998.See Also
lmbench(8).
Synopsis
mhz[-c]
