Whetstone
<benchmark> The first major synthetic benchmark program, intended to be
representative for numerical (floating-point intensive) programming. It is based
on statistics gathered by Brian Wichmann at the National Physical Laboratory in
England, using an Algol 60 compiler which translated Algol into instructions for
the imaginary Whetstone machine. The compilation system was named after the
small town of Whetstone outside the City of Leicester, England, where it was
designed.
The later dhrystone benchmark was a pun on Whetstone.
Source code: C, single precision Fortran,
double precision Fortran.
["A Synthetic Benchmark", H.J. Curnow and B.A. Wichmann, The Computer Journal,
19,1 (1976), pp. 43-49].
(1994-11-14)
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