From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MISSING_FROM, MISSING_MID,MISSING_SUBJECT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,bf2e2a640e02895 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.66.88.5 with SMTP id bc5mr1783658pab.11.1343313451038; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: 2012-07-26T07:37:31-07:00 List-Id: Message-ID: <20120726143731.MqjpE3JvmWCSjwlcOVS2CVaRTCoApXeptAM_Qdg1AdE@z> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07: 37:30 -0700 (PDT) Path: p10ni64698300pbh.1!nntp.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!q21no851974qas.0!news-out.google.com!b9ni64828449pbl.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-peer1!btnet!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.swapon.de!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Austin Obyrne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Computer operations per second - Question. Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3d8cd668-5061-46ca-8b45-8a757c50409f@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.167.61.142 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1343026684 31741 127.0.0.1 (23 Jul 2012 06:58:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:58:04 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.167.61.142; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg User-Agent: G2/1.0 Bytes: 2517 X-Received-Bytes: 2784 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ad= a: >=20 > >=20 > > 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? > >=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 > "hyper-threading" 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 > > 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. > > > 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