Re: A program to measure flops in Perl (should it be this "off"?)

In article <1125433075.641083.64400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
px1138@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I am in a grad level computer architecture class. Although it does not
> have any programming prereqs most of the students are CS (I am EE), so
> the first assignment was to write a little program to determine the
> amount of flops per second your computer runs at. It is suppose to be a
> short program, and apart from making sure you use a good timer and run
> for long enough to ensure accuracy it doesn't have to include any
> really big optimizations (i.e. making sure all the data fits in cache
> to minimize memory transfer, doing something like LINPACK and making
> sure your # ops >> # data, etc etc).
>
> My personal caveat is that I suck at C/C++, I wouldn't even know where
> to start.

Pardon me for asking ... I'm a bit of an old timer. How do you get to
grad school in computers without knowing a compiled language?
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