drw@cullvax.UUCP (02/09/87)
I can't figure out any plausable explanation. Dale -- Dale Worley Cullinet Software UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw ARPA: cullvax!drw@eddie.mit.edu
eugene@pioneer.UUCP (02/09/87)
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Dhrystone is simply a weak pun on Whetstone just as
Unix is a weak pun on Multics. Where did Whetstone come from?
Probably from the stone used to sharpen knives. Ask Wichmann.
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In article <784@cullvax.UUCP>, drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes: > I can't figure out any plausable explanation. > > Dale The "Whetstone" benchmark tests, primarily, floating-point operations. What would you call something that does the opposite (fixed pt only) ? What else? -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
steves@ncr-sd.UUCP (02/12/87)
In article <299@ames.UUCP> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: > >Dhrystone is simply a weak pun on Whetstone just as >Where did Whetstone come from? It was developed in a lab in Whetstone, England.
rmb@omepd.UUCP (02/13/87)
In article <299@ames.UUCP> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: > >Dhrystone is simply a weak pun on Whetstone just as >Unix is a weak pun on Multics. Where did Whetstone come from? >Probably from the stone used to sharpen knives. Ask Wichmann. > Whetstone is a place in Leicestershire, England. In the 60's it was the location of a development facility of English Electric Co. (a precursor of the present ICL), who had developed a machine called the KDF9. There were two different Algol-60 compilers for the KDF9 - a "production" compiler, developed at the Kidsgrove facility near Manchester (the "K" in KDF9), and a development compiler developed at Whetstone. Not surprisingly, they were known as the Kidsgrove and Whetstone Algol compilers. The Whetstone compiler actually produced code for a virtual target machine, which was then interpreted. This made for easier debugging, and also made it possible to collect dynamic frequency statistics on instructions, data types, etc. Brian Wichmann did just this, and produced a synthetic benchmark which approximated the characteristics of the observed programs - hence, the "Whetstone" benchmark. In was later converted from Algol-60 to Fortran, and the rest is history. Bob Bentley Intel Corp. - Hillsboro, Oregon .. ihnp4!verdix!inteloa!rmb "personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behaviour and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble"
sinyaw@sinyaw.UUCP (02/16/87)
In article <1333@ncr-sd.UUCP> steves@ncr-sd.UUCP (0000-Steve Schlesinger) writes: > >In article <299@ames.UUCP> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >> >>Dhrystone is simply a weak pun on Whetstone just as >>Where did Whetstone come from? > >It was developed in a lab in Whetstone, England. In "Transactions of ACM", October 1987, you can find the original paper of "Dhrystone: A Synthetic Systems Programming Benchmark" by Reinhold Weicker. It is worth reading.
crowl@rochester.UUCP (02/18/87)
In article <13409@sun.uucp> sinyaw@sun.UUCP (Sin-Yaw Wang) writes: >In "Transactions of ACM", October 1987, you can find the original paper of >"Dhrystone: A Synthetic Systems Programming Benchmark" by Reinhold >Weicker. It is worth reading. Since I've never heard of the "Transactions of the ACM" and October 1987 is not yet here, I think you meant: Reinhold P. Weicker "Dhrystone: A Synthetic Systems Programming Benchmark" Communications of the ACM, volume 27, number 10, pages 1013-1030 October 1984 -- Lawrence Crowl 716-275-5766 University of Rochester crowl@rochester.arpa Computer Science Department ...!{allegra,decvax,seismo}!rochester!crowl Rochester, New York, 14627