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- This floppy disk contains the source code of the Dhrystone benchmark
- (version 2.1) in three languages:
-
- Files containing the Ada version (*.s: Specifications, *.b: Bodies):
-
- d_global.s
- d_main.b
- d_pack_1.b
- d_pack_1.s
- d_pack_2.b
- d_pack_2.s
-
- (The file names have been abbreviated to 8 characters plus extension
- for MS-DOS)
-
- Files containing the C version (*.h: Header File, *.c: C Modules)
-
- dhry.h
- dhry_1.c
- dhry_2.c
-
- File containing the Pascal version:
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- dhry.p
-
- The file RATIONALE contains the article
-
- "Dhrystone Benchmark: Rationale for Version 2 and Measurement Rules"
-
- which has been published, together with the C source code (Version 2.0),
- in SIGPLAN Notices vol. 23, no. 8 (Aug. 1988), pp. 49-62.
- This article explains all changes that have been made for Version 2,
- compared with the version of the original publication
- in Communications of the ACM vol. 27, no. 10 (Oct. 1984), pp. 1013-1030.
- It also contains "ground rules" for benchmarking with Dhrystone
- which should be followed by everyone who uses the program and publishes
- Dhrystone results.
-
- Compared with the Version 2.0 published in SIGPLAN Notices, Version 2.1
- contains a few corrections that have been made after Version 2.0 was
- distriobuted over the UNIX network Usenet. These small differences between
- Version 2.0 and 2.1 should not affect execution time measurements.
- For those who want to compare the exact contents of both versions,
- the file "dhry_c.dif" contains the differences between the two versions,
- as generated by a file comparison of the corresponding files with the
- UNIX utility "diff".
-
- Recipients of this floppy disk who perform measurements are asked
- to send measurement results to the author and/or to Rick Richardson.
- Rick Richardson publishes regularly Dhrystone results on the UNIX network
- Usenet. For submissions of results to him (preferably by electronic mail,
- see address in the program header), he has provided a form which is contained
- in the file "submit.frm".
-
- August 17, 1988
-
- Reinhold P. Weicker
- Siemens AG, E STE 35
- Postfach 3240
- D-8520 Erlangen
- Germany (West)
-
- Phone: [xxx-49]-9131-7-20330 (8-17 Central European Time)
- Usenet: ..!mcvax!unido!estevax!weicker
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