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From: dennisg@fritz.UUCP (Dennis Griesser)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Floating point performance
Message-ID: <2059@fritz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 17:12:40 EDT
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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.