feat: add computational work and computational perf units #43
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This PR adds support for computational work (FLOP) and computational performance (FLOP per second) units.
This lets us do, e.g., the following calculations:
FLOP—Floating-point Operation—(computational work) is always singular, and FLOPs—Floating-point Operations per second—(computational performance) is always plural. Since "FLOPs" is often used as an abbreviation for "FLOP/s", I allowed the syntax for convenience (similarly to how we can write "bps" for data rates).
I found myself often wanting to compute stuff with FLOP/s to calculate scientific kernel performance or speedups between benchmark versions, so I figured I would contribute my changes. 🙂