Dhrystone

English Etymology A pun combining en Whetstone dry 1 due to the homophony of wet and whet. Proper noun en computing A microprocessor benchmark measuring primarily fixed-point arithmetic performance. en Whetstone Noun en computing A measure of the Dhrystone Dhrystone benchmark, calibrated to some reference architecture. en 1991 April 16 Byte (magazine) Byte 0360-5280 https://books.google.com/books?id=yjpVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Dhrystones%22&dq=%22Dhrystones%22&hl=&cd=5&source=gbs_api While the average Dhrystones per task decline rapidly after five, the total number of Dhrystones increases until the number of tasks en 2001 Arnold S. Berger Embedded Systems Design: An Introduction to Processes, Tools, and Techniques CRC Press 9781482280715 27 https://books.google.com/books?id=hUhZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27&dq=%22Dhrystone%22&hl=&cd=7&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Dhrystone%22&f=false Because a VAX 11/70 could execute 1,757 loops through the Dhrystone benchmark in 1 second, 1,757 loops became 1 Dhrystone. Derived terms en DMIPS