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Whetstones Definition |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
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Solutions: Whetstones: The performance of a computer system is often evaluated by measuring its operational speed in a variety of different tasks. The Whetstone benchmark program, developed in 1976, was designed to simulate arithmetic intensive programs used in scientific computing. It is applicable in CAD and other engineering areas where floating-point and trigonometric calculations are heavily used. The Whetstone program remains completely CPU-bound and performs no I/O or system calls. The program was originally written in ALGOL, although the C and PASCAL versions became more popular by the late 1980's. The speed at which a system performs floating point operations is measured in units of Whetstones or floating point operations per second (flops). This definition was taken from the public domain program named PC-Glossary. |
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