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磨石
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Whetstone \Whet"stone`\, n. [AS. hwetst[=a]n.]
A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting,
or sharpening, edge tools.
The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits.
--Shak.
Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to
the razor. --South.
Note: Some whetstones are used dry, others are moistened with
water, or lubricated with oil.
{To give the whetstone}, to give a premium for extravagance
in falsehood. [Obs.]
資料來源 : WordNet®
whetstone
n : a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives
資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
Whetstone
The first major {synthetic benchmark} program,
intended to be representative for numerical ({floating-point}
intensive) programming. It is based on statistics gathered by
Brian Wichmann at the {National Physical Laboratory} in
England, using an {Algol 60} {compiler} which translated Algol
into instructions for the imaginary Whetstone machine. The
compilation system was named after the small town of Whetstone
outside the City of Leicester, England, where it was designed.
The later {dhrystone} benchmark was a pun on Whetstone.
Source code: {C
(ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/benchmark/whetstonec.Z)}, {single
precision Fortran
(ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstones.Z)},
{double precision Fortran
(ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstoned.Z)}.
["A Synthetic Benchmark", H.J. Curnow and B.A. Wichmann, The
Computer Journal, 19,1 (1976), pp. 43-49].
(1994-11-14)