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Dhrystone

Dhrystone proper noun: a microprocessor benchmark measuring primarily fixed-point arithmetic performance.

Proper noun

Dhrystone

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

Noun

Dhrystone (plural Dhrystones)

  1. A measure of the Dhrystone benchmark, calibrated to some reference architecture.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of Dhrystone

pluralDhrystones

Origin of Dhrystone

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

Words formed from Dhrystone

Questions about Dhrystone

What does Dhrystone mean?
Dhrystone means a microprocessor benchmark measuring primarily fixed-point arithmetic performance.
What part of speech is Dhrystone?
Dhrystone can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Dhrystone in the dictionary

  1. dhrop
  2. dhrum
  3. dhrunk
  4. dhrupad
  5. Dhruva
  6. Dhrystone
  7. Dhrystones
  8. DHS
  9. DHSC
  10. DHSS
  11. DHSUD

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