MFLOPS

[Etymology: ‘megaflops’, = million floating-point operations per second] informatics A measure of the numeric calculating power of a computer, relevant particularly to numerically intensive computing. Technically the number of such operations that can be executed in a second, but this, for any one machine, varies considerably with the mixture of instructions - add, divide, etc. - that a particular program has. The practical reality was usually measured by standardized programs like dhrystone, livermore loops and linpack. Compare MIPS.