Overview

Dhrystone is treated in the available evidence as a CPU performance benchmark within the broader category of benchmarks. In the context of CPU verification planning, performance verification plans focus on performance aspects and bottlenecks and capture patterns or benchmarks used to measure CPU performance; the examples given include SPECint, lmbench, and Dhrystone. [C1]

Use in RISC-V CPU verification evidence

The thesis UVM based design verification of a RISC-V CPU core includes an "Experimental evaluation" chapter with a "Benchmarks" section. Its table of contents lists a dedicated subsection for "Dhrystone" under that benchmarks section, followed by a subsection for "Coremark." [C2]

Scope of supported information

The provided excerpts support describing Dhrystone as a benchmark used in CPU performance-verification contexts and as a benchmark considered in the cited RISC-V CPU core verification thesis. The excerpts do not provide implementation details, scoring methodology, benchmark version, or numerical results.