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Well, yeah, I use it in the context of floating-points-operations-per-seconds. That's the most common use in my field. I was replying to the parent comment. No need to use this kind of tone.

Maybe the_svd_doctor uses flop/s to describe hardware, like you said

The number of operations per second varies by at least an order of magnitude on the same hardware depending on the GEMM algorithm you use (reference or Goto), and you quote the performance of the implementation in terms of FLOP/s knowing the number of FLOPs required by the computation. That makes sense to people who implement and measure these things.