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Dhrystone en · NOUN

Etymology

A pun combining Whetstone + dry due to the homophony of wet and whet.

Meanings

  1. A measure of the Dhrystone benchmark, calibrated to some reference architecture.
    • Because a VAX 11/70 could execute 1,757 loops through the Dhrystone benchmark in 1 second, 1,757 loops became 1 Dhrystone. 2001, Arnold S. Berger, Embedded Systems Design: An Introduction to Processes, Tools, and Techniques, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 27:
    • While the average Dhrystones per task decline rapidly after five, the total number of Dhrystones increases until the number of tasks […] 1991 April, Byte, volume 16, →ISSN:

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Dhrystones Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

DMIPS

Dhrystone en · PROPN

Etymology

A pun combining Whetstone + dry due to the homophony of wet and whet.

Meanings

  1. A microprocessor benchmark measuring primarily fixed-point arithmetic performance.

Coordinates

Whetstone