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On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 15:42 +0800, Michael Wang wrote:

> I mean could we say that more ops/sec means more works has been done?

Sure.  But it's fairly meaningless, it's all scheduler.  Real tasks do
more than schedule.

-Mike