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From: alan@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,rec.humor
Subject: Re: rhealstone
Keywords: real-time benchmark
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Date: 20 Feb 89 15:17:30 GMT
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In article <4476@hubcap.UUCP> mark@hubcap.UUCP (Mark Smotherman) writes:
>For what it's worth, Dr. Dobb's Journal in the Feb. '89 issue reports
>goals for a real-time benchmark, a project spearheaded by R.P. Kar of
>Intel Systems Group, Hillsboro, OR.  The article asks for suggestions
>for improvements in order to produce a Rhealstone standard benchmark.

It seems that *h*stone has become a standard infix/prefix for naming
computer benchmarks.  It might be interesting to collect a list of
all the benchmarks whose names have this form, and to entertain
suggestions for new, perhaps whimsical, benchmark names that would
use this infix/prefix.

Stoned Benchmarks:      

Whetstone (floating-point)
Dhrystone (integer)
Dhampstone (integer and floating-point)
Rhealstone (real-time/tasking) 
"IO-stone" (there is an IO benchmark that uses -stone, but I forget its name)

Suggestions for Stoned Benchmarks:

An animation benchmark might be called the "Flhintstone" :-).


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