Whetstone
/ˈwɛtstəʊn/
词源说明
The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at an English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.
释义
专有名词proper noun
- 1A suburb and ward in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2693).
- 2A large village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5597).
- 3A census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
- 4An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
- 5A surname.
- 6(computing) A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
名词noun
- 1(computing) A single instruction of the Whetstone benchmark, often expressed as a value per second.