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Whetstone en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɛtstəʊn/ (UK)

Etymology

The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at an English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.

Meanings

  1. A single instruction of the Whetstone benchmark, often expressed as a value per second.
    • The Prodigy 4 does 500,000 Whetstones. 1994, Binod C. Agrawal, Larry R. Symes, Future of Computerisation in Institutions of Higher Learning, Concept Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 92:

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Deriveds

kWIPS · MWIPS

wikipedia: English Electric

Whetstone en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɛtstəʊn/ (UK)

Etymology

The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at an English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.

Meanings

  1. A suburb and ward in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2693).
  2. A large village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5597).
  3. A census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
  5. A surname.
  6. A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
    • Developed in the early 1970s by Harold Curnow and Brian Wichmann, Whetstones was originally released in Algol and Fortran versions but was later translated into several other languages. 2016, Joseph D. Dumas II, Computer Architecture: Fundamentals and Principles of Computer Design, second edition, CRC Press, →ISBN:
    • Whetstone reflects mostly numerical computing, using a substantial amount of floating-point arithmetic. 2018, Sajjan G. Shiva, Advanced Computer Architectures, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 67:

Coordinates

Dhrystone

wikipedia: English Electric