Whetstone

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Whetstone

  1. An area 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). [1]
  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. (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, 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.
    • 2018, Sajjan G. Shiva, Advanced Computer Architectures, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 67:
      Whetstone reflects mostly numerical computing, using a substantial amount of floating-point arithmetic.

Noun

Whetstone (plural Whetstones)

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

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Parish map (Leicestershire)
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