Whetstone
See also: whetstone
English
editEtymology
editThe benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at a English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.
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editProper noun
editWhetstone
- An area in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2693).
- A large village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5597). [1]
- A census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
- A surname.
- (computing) A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
- Coordinate term: Dhrystone
- 2016, Joseph D. Dumas II, Computer Architecture: Fundamentals and Principles of Computer Design[1], second edition, CRC Press, →ISBN:
- 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.
Noun
editWhetstone (plural Whetstones)
- (computing) A single instruction of the Whetstone benchmark, often expressed as a value per second.
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- en:Neighbourhoods in Greater London, England
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