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Keywords:  sharpen, carborundum, knives, grindstone, tool
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A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.
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A stone for sharpening tools by rubbing.
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a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives
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Keywords:  benchmark, kdf, algol, defeat, behaviour
A benchmark to measure the speed of floating point operations.
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The Whetstone benchmark is a benchmark for evaluating the performance of computers. It was first written in Algol 60 in 1972 at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom and derived from statistics on program behaviour gathered on the KDF9 computer, using a modified version of its Whetstone Algol 60 compiler. The program's behavior replicated that of a typical KDF9 scientific program and was designed to defeat compiler optimizations that would have adversely affected the accuracy of this model.
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