| 释义 |
megaflop, n. Computing.|ˈmɛgəflɒp|
[Back-formation f. megaflops, f. mega- b + acronym f. floating-point operations per second, -s being taken as a plural ending.]
A unit of computing speed equal to one million or 220 floating-point operations per second.
1976IEEE Spectrum Oct. 69/1 Users of large, fast, number-crunching computers often talk in terms of megaflops (millions of floating-point operations per second). 1985Science 26 Apr. 421/1 On a powerful sequential computer that operates at a rate of 1 megaflop.., this formidable task would take about 70 hours of computing. 1991UNIX World Jan. 27/2 On the Iris Vision boards is a proprietary 20-megaflop geometry engine, six custom VLSI (very large-scale integration) chips, and a Weitek accelerator. |