Dhrystone

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Dhrystone
       
           A short {synthetic benchmark} program by Reinhold
          Weicker , ,
          intended to be representative of system (integer) programming.
          It is available in {ADA}, {Pascal} and {C}.


       
          The current version is Dhrystone 2.1.  The author says,
          "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be
          hazardous to your professional health."
       
          Due to its small size, the memory system outside the {cache}
          is not tested.  Compilers can too easily optimise for
          Dhrystone.  String operations are somewhat over-represented.
       
          {Sources (ftp://ftp.nosc.mil/pub/aburto/)}.
       
          {Results
         
       (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html)}.
       
          (2002-03-26)