From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Oct 17 12:01:37 1996
Subject: flops?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: vabreu at tsc dot uvigo dot es (Victoria Abreu Sernandez [GTS])
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:00:33 -0500

On 17-Oct-1996, Victoria Abreu Sernandez <vabreu at tsc dot uvigo dot es> wrote:

: I'm a question if the function flops() 
: (or something similar) is now available.

No, flops() is still a flop.

Seriously, I have no desire to add operation counts to all the code
that Octave uses (how would you do this for LSODE and DASSL, for
example?).  Is this really a useful feature?  For me, it sounds like a
lot of work for very little benefit.

jwe