That would be "gigaflopsen", I think, considering the long abuse of that suffix. Fairly recently, someone near me was talking about "megaflops per second". I m

That would be "gigaflopsen", I think, considering the long abuse of that suffix. Fairly recently, someone near me was talking about "megaflops per second". I made a joke about computing while falling into informational singularities. It did give me a fun mental diversion, trying to imagine a physics where computational speed was tied to some sort of data density, and then I realized that Vernor Vinge sort of got there first, with _Fire Upon the Deep_.