Dhrystone

1. computingA microprocessor benchmark measuring primarily fixed-point arithmetic performance.

plural Dhrystones

1. computingA measure of the Dhrystone benchmark, calibrated to some reference architecture.

   Because a VAX 11/70 could execute 1,757 loops through the Dhrystone benchmark in 1 second, 1,757 loops became 1 Dhrystone.

   2001, Arnold S. Berger, Embedded Systems Design: An Introduction to Processes, Tools, and Techniques, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 27

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   While the average Dhrystones per task decline rapidly after five, the total number of Dhrystones increases until the number of tasks […]

   1991 April, Byte, volume 16, →ISSN