The irony... (was Re: famous flops... )

[David Doolin]

>It is more than "probably".  Cleve Moler has already stated publicly in
>
>http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletter/clevescorner/winter2000.cleve.shtm
>l
>
>  Regrettably, one popular MATLAB feature must be a casualty with the
>  introduction of LAPACK. The flops function, which keeps a running count
>  of the number of floating-point operations, is no longer feasible. Most
>  of the floating point operations are now done in optimized BLAS that
>  do not keep flop counts. However, with modern computer architectures,
>  floating-point operations are no longer the dominant factor in execution
>  speed. Memory references and cache usage are most important.
>
>Octave leads, Matlab follows :-)

This is ironic, because one of the lapack PI's (demmel) _always_ demands 
flop counts in any matlab programming assignments...  ;)

-dmd



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