Suggestion: /usr/bin/time new option -B and/or --BogoMI

[Neville Dempsey]

$ /usr/bin/time -V
GNU time 1.7

Hi,

  Suggestion: add a new option -B and/or --BogoMI (Algorithm BMI) switch
that scales the CPU time result to appear as it it ran on a 1 BogoMIP
CPU.  That way one doesn't have to do a CPU speed lookup and an mental
calculation to get a ball park idea on how slow/fast different
algorithms run.  

  Most useful if the different algorithms cannot run on a common CPU
and/or language and/or compiler.

eg: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Prime_decomposition c.f. BogoMI

On linux the BogoMips is calculated at kernel start, and can be quickly
retrieved from /proc/cpuinfo

reg.
N

c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips for a discussion of the
BogoMIPS merits (and/or lack of) for measuring CPU performance.