How can we check the speed of ARM processor for running C programs on beagleboard ??

hello everyone,
I want to know how we can actually check the processing speed of the Beagleboard’s ARM processor in context of running C programs.
to be more specific i want to know up to how much extent we can code on beagleboard in terms of it’s processing speed.
If there are any standard techniques or papers on this then please let me know.
Thankyou

Rajan

rajan buha wrote:

hello everyone,
                        I want to know how we can actually check the processing speed of the Beagleboard's ARM processor
in context of running C programs.
                       to be more specific i want to know up to how much extent we can code on beagleboard in terms of
it's processing speed.
                       If there are any standard techniques or papers on this then please let me know.
                      Thankyou

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq