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whetstone 音标拼音: [w'ɛtst ,on] [hw'ɛtst ,on] n. 磨石 磨石 whetstone n 1: a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knivesWhetstone \ Whet" stone`\, n. [ AS. hwetst[= a] n.] A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools. [ 1913 Webster] The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Some whetstones are used dry, others are moistened with water, or lubricated with oil. [ 1913 Webster] { To give the whetstone}, to give a premium for extravagance in falsehood. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The first major {synthetic benchmark} program,
intended to be representative for numerical ({floating-point}
intensive) programming. It is based on statistics gathered by
Brian Wichmann at the {National Physical Laboratory} in
England, using an {Algol 60} {compiler} which translated Algol
into instructions for the imaginary Whetstone machine. The
compilation system was named after the small town of Whetstone
outside the City of Leicester, England, where it was designed.
The later {dhrystone} benchmark was a pun on Whetstone.
Source code: {C
(ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/benchmark/whetstonec.Z)}, {single
precision Fortran
(ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstones.Z)},
{double precision Fortran
(ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstoned.Z)}.
["A Synthetic Benchmark", H.J. Curnow and B.A. Wichmann, The
Computer Journal, 19,1 (1976), pp. 43-49].
(1994-11-14)
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