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Dhrystone

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Historical C-language benchmark suite authored by Reinhold P. Weicker, widely used as a synthetic performance metric alongside CoreMark and compliance tests in modern processor verification flows such as those targeting the NaxRiscv RISC-V SoC.

First seen 6/25/2026
Last seen 6/25/2026
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Dhrystone

Dhrystone is a long-standing synthetic benchmark written in C. The reference distribution maintained as a public repository preserves the historical versions of Reinhold P. Weicker's original benchmark, providing a stable, reproducible artifact that downstream projects can build and run unchanged across toolchains.

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Dhrystone is executed to evaluate performance in the real-world benchmarking phase.

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[1] Dhrystone is a historical C-language benchmark authored by Reinhold P. Weicker, preserved in a public repository (Keith-S-Thompson/dhrystone). Keith-S-Thompson/dhrystone
[2] In the NaxRiscv SoC verification methodology, Dhrystone is executed in the real-world benchmarking phase alongside CoreMark to assess performance and software–hardware integration, and is complemented by OS-boot, directed compliance, and RISCV-DV constrained-random testing. [PDF] Comprehensive lockstep verification for NaxRiscv SoC integrating ...