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<p><b>Dhrystone</b> is a synthetic computing <a href="page.php?w=Benchmark_%28computing%29">benchmark</a> program developed in 1984 by <a href="page.php?w=Reinhold_P._Weicker">Reinhold P. Weicker</a> intended to be representative of system (<a href="page.php?w=integer">integer</a>) programming. The Dhrystone grew to become representative of <a href="page.php?w=General-purpose_macro_processor">general processor</a> (<a href="page.php?w=CPU">CPU</a>) performance. The name "Dhrystone" is a pun on a different benchmark algorithm called <a href="page.php?w=Whetstone_%28benchmark%29">Whetstone</a>,</p><p>
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