JC>On (10 Mar 97) Steve Westcot wrote to All...
 SW> Ok, I know what Mhz is when dealing with personal computers, and I
 SW> know that Mega FLOPS deal with Supercomputer speed.  Does anyone
JC>know
 SW> of a conversion from one to another?  I make small, almost trivial
 SW> programs to increase my C/C++ knowledge, and was wondering this
JC>tiny
 SW> fact.
JC>There is no direct conversion.  FLOPS is short for FLoating point
JC>OPerations per Second.  However, much like MIPS, the FLOPS/megaFLOPS you
JC>get from a CPU depends on the number of machine cycles it takes to
JC>execute a single FP operation.  It also depends somewhat on WHAT
JC>operations you're discussing: for instance, division is nearly always
JC>slower than addition.
Doesn't the FPU exectute FP operations?
... How come pizza gets to your house faster than the police?
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