flops aren't the answer. floating point power isnt the only thing a cpu needs to be 'fast' and floating point ops arent the only type of instructions a cpu has to process. As such its still not an accurate measuremant of cpu power. It's better, but still not god enough.
I don't think there'll ever be a single unit we can measure by.
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