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Article #3030Re: Floating point performance
From: Dennis Griesser
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1986 21:12
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1986 21:12
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In article <8184@sun.uucp> dgh@sun.UUCP writes:
> Mflops Per MHz
In article <8575@lanl.ARPA> jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>Mflops:(Millions of FLoating point OPerations per Second)
>MHz: (Millions of cycles per second)
>
>Therefore 'Mflops per MHz':(Millions^2 FLoating point OPeration cycles per
> sec^2)
>
>Sounds like an acceleration to me. Must be a measure of how fast computer
>speed is improving. Still, the choice of units forces this number to
>be small.
You are not factoring the units out correctly...
million x flop second flop
-------------- x --------------- = -----
second million x cycle cycle
Sounds reasonable to me.
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