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From: Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Computer operations per second - Question.
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:56:23 -0700 (PDT)
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On Sunday, July 22, 2012 10:31:33 PM UTC+1, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:20:36 -0700 (PDT), Austin Obyrne
> &lt;austin.obyrne@hotmail.com&gt; declaimed the following in comp.lang.ad=
a:
>=20
> &gt;=20
> &gt; Is it correct for me say that my computer has a capability of 2.61 G=
iga operations per second i.e =EF=BF=BDn=EF=BF=BD =3D 2.61 x 10^6?
> &gt;=20
>=20
> 	Unlikely...
>=20
> 	If you have a multi-core processor you have to consider: are you
> ranking a single core or distributed among them? If the cores support
> &quot;hyper-threading&quot; do you count those?
>=20
> 	Are you talking floating point operations or integer?
>=20
> 	Register to register or tight loops that stay within the CPU cache,
> or memory accesses out to RAM?
>=20
> &gt; I know this question is hardly related to Ada programming but I know=
 also that many Ada programmer readers are well-informed computer scientist=
s.
> &gt;
> 	http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/perf.html
> =20
> --=20
> 	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
>         wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

Thanks Dennis - that's just what I wanted to know - Austin O'Byrne