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gigaflop

noun

Etymology

From giga- + flop.

Definitions

  1. A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹)…

    A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second.

    • The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gigaflop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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