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Dhrystone: a synthetic systems programming benchmark

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Reinhold P. WeickerAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 27, Issue 10

Pages 1013 - 1030

https://doi.org/10.1145/358274.358283

Published: 01 October 1984 Publication History

Abstract

Reflecting current data on the use of programming language constructs in systems programming, a synthetic benchmark is constructed based on the distribution appearing in the data. The benchmark executes 100 Ada statements that are balanced in terms of the distribution of statement types, data types, and data locality. Pascal and C versions of the benchmark are discussed.

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Index Terms

Dhrystone: a synthetic systems programming benchmark
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Evaluation
    2. Metrics
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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Communications of the ACM Volume 27, Issue 10

Oct 1984

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DOI:10.1145/358274

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