Whetstone (benchmark)
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title:
Whetstone (benchmark)
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The Whetstone benchmark is a synthetic benchmark for evaluating the performance of computers. It was first written in ALGOL 60 in 1972 at the Technical Support Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry in the United Kingdom. It was derived from statistics on program behaviour gathered on the KDF9 computer at NPL National Physical Laboratory, using a modified version of its Whetstone ALGOL 60 compiler. The workload on the machine was represented as a set of frequencies of execution of the 124
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Synthetic benchmark for evaluating the performance of computers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whetstone_(benchmark)
date created:
2004-09-24T01:37:07Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T08:26:31Z
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