7.1. Whetstone Benchmarks
Whetstone benchmark was the first international benchmark in
history [10]. It was intended to measure the performance of a
computer system and to simulate the floating point intensive
application problems. It consists of nine small loops of different
statement of particular type like integer arithmetic, floating
point arithmetic, ‘if’ statements etc. It uses global variables and
a high percentage of execution time is spent in mathematical
library functions. The result of this benchmark is represented in
MWIPS (mega whetstone institution Per Second).