Dhrystone 2. 1, released in May of the same year, had some minor changes and remains the current definition of Dhrystone.

Dhrystone remains remarkably resilient as a simple benchmark, but its continuing value in establishing true performance is questionable.

Dhrystone was published in Ada, with the C version for Unix developed by Rick Richardson (" version 1. 1 ") greatly contributing to its popularity.

It was by instrumenting the latter that Brian Wichmann obtained the statistics on program behaviour that led him to devise the Whetstone benchmark for scientific computation, which inspired in turn the Dhrystone benchmark for non-numerical workloads.

Fhourstones was named as a pun on Dhrystone.

Both Whetstone and Dhrystone are synthetic benchmarks, meaning that they are simple programs that are carefully designed to statistically mimic the processor usage of some common set of programs.

Dhrystone is a synthetic computing benchmark program developed in 1984 by Reinhold P. Weicker intended to be representative of system ( integer ) programming.

CoreMark is a small benchmark released by the non-profit Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium ( EEMBC ) that targets the CPU core, similar to Dhrystone.

Another common representation of the Dhrystone benchmark is the DMIPS ( Dhrystone MIPS ) obtained when the Dhrystone score is divided by 1757 ( the number of Dhrystones per second obtained on the VAX 11 / 780, nominally a 1 MIPS machine ).

With Dhrystone, Weicker gathered meta-data from a broad range of software, including programs written in FORTRAN, PL / 1, SAL, ALGOL 68, and Pascal.

Other than issues related to compiler optimization, various other issues have been cited with the Dhrystone.

Dhrystone tries to represent the result more meaningfully than MIPS ( million instructions per second ) because instruction count comparisons between different instruction sets ( e. g. RISC vs. CISC ) can confound simple comparisons.

The Dhrystone grew to become representative of general processor ( CPU ) performance.

The name " Dhrystone " is a pun on a different benchmark algorithm called Whetstone.

From this he wrote the Dhrystone benchmark to correspond to a representative mix.

The Dhrystone benchmark contains no floating point operations, thus the name is a pun on the then-popular Whetstone benchmark for floating point operations.

Thus, the Dhrystone score counts only the number of program iteration completions per second, allowing individual machines to perform this calculation in a machine-specific way.

However, the strings in Dhrystone are of known constant length and their starts are aligned on natural boundaries, two characteristics usually absent from real programs.

* Dhrystone results for Unix machines.

The term " Hamito-Semitic " remains in use in the academic traditions of some European countries.

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

Coca, despite eradication programmes in some countries, remains an important crop for legal local use in a mildly stimulating herbal tea, and, both controversially and illegally, for the production of cocaine.

The use of medicinal cannabis remains a debated issue.

There also remains a strong a cappella presence within Christian music, as some denominations purposefully do not use instruments during

In addition, a 2010 Cochrane Collaboration review of trials of Risperidone, one of the biggest selling antipsychotics and the first of the new generation to become available in generic form, found only marginal benefit compared with placebo and that, despite its widespread use, evidence remains limited, poorly reported and probably biased in favor of risperidone due to pharmaceutical company funding of trials.

However Champion continued to use the cheaper calamine cementation method to produce lower zinc brass and the archaeological remains of bee-hive shaped cementation furnaces have been identified at his works at Warmley.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

As of 2011, the BIOS is being replaced by the more complex Extensible Firmware Interface ( EFI ) in many new machines, but BIOS remains in widespread use.

The use of term bean to refer to species other than Phaseolus thus remains.

Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live quarry.

Long-term use of benzodiazepines has been associated with increased risk of cognitive impairment, but its relationship with dementia remains inconclusive.

This edition, also called the " Black-Cover Book of Common Prayer " 黑皮公禱書 because of its black cover, still remains in use after the establishment of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui ( Anglican province in Hong Kong ).

Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

However, it remains a commonly used unit for energies in the field of chemistry, and in many countries it remains in common use as a unit of food energy.

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A file is durable in the sense that it remains available for programs to use after the current program has finished.

This convention remains in use by several operating systems today, including Microsoft Windows.

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There remains disagreement about the importance of the ability to perform calculations " in the head ", with some curricula restricting calculator use until a certain level of proficiency has been obtained, while others concentrate more on teaching estimation techniques and problem-solving.

The machine was re-packaged into a small tabletop case, which remains distinctive for its use of smoked plastic over the CPU which allowed one to easily see the wire-wrapped internals of the CPU.

DDT was subsequently banned for agricultural use worldwide under the Stockholm Convention, but its limited use in disease vector control continues to this day and remains controversial.