Dhrystone Benchmark Overview

Purpose:

The Dhrystone benchmark is intended to give a raw processor speed number indicating how many dhrystones can be executed in one scecond.

Additional Information

- Dhrystone contains no floating point operations
- Dhrystone is small enough to fit entirely into L1 cache

Input: (Number of Iterations) (CPU clock speed in KHz)
Output: Dhrystones per Second / DMIPS/MHz