Re: famous flops...

[A Scottedward Hodel]

It's worth noting that MATLAB will also drop the "flops"
variable from their code, due to moving to LAPACK routines
in their code.

At 5:43 PM -0500 5/31/00, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 31-May-2000, on the octave-sources mailing list, Fotis Georgatos
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | FYI,
> | exactly one year ago, I had to pass a course of Scientific Computing,
> | and slightly patched Octave to count Matlab-like flops,
> | but never reached ...full combatibility; don't ask me what flops mean.
> |
> | I passed that course, graduated, and haven't been with much time since.
> | So, if someone wants to receive the code to maintain, publish or,
> | do something useful with it, please just let me know.
>
> It's fine if someone wants to maintain it, but it is unlikely to ever
> be a part of the `official' Octave distributions.
>
> The next major release of Matlab will probably not support flops
> either.  It was discussed in comp.soft-sys.matlab.  For example, take
> a look at
>
>
> http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=592678096&CONTEXT=959812660.827719751&hitnum=18
>
> I'm copying this to the help-octave mailing list instead of
> octave-sources, since help-octave is for discussion and octave-sources
> is meant for posting actual source code.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe
>
>
>
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