Dhrystone Benchmark

Table of Contents

• Supported Combinations
• Introduction
• Performance statistics
• Steps to Run the Example
  • Building Dhrystone benchmark application
  • Running the Dhrystone benchmark application
  • Sample output for Dhrystone benchmark example

Dhrystone is a synthetic benchmark that measures and compares processor performance.

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Supported Combinations

Introduction

The Dhrystone benchmark program contains 52 assignments, 33 control statements and 17 procedures/ function calls. Unlike Whetstone benchmarking, the program doesn't contain floating point operation and concentrates on string handling and standard code, heavily influenced by hardware and software design, compiler and linker options, code optimizing, cache memory, wait states and integer data types. 103 statements are dynamically executed. The output of the Dhrystone program is

Performance statistics

Steps to Run the Example

Building Dhrystone benchmark application

• When using CCS projects to build, import the CCS project for the required combination and build it using the CCS project menu (see Using SDK with CCS Projects).
• When using makefiles to build, note the required combination and build using make command (see Using SDK with Makefiles)

Running the Dhrystone benchmark application

Once you have the application binary built following the aforementioned steps, Load and run the application using CCS. (see CCS Launch, Load and Run).

If you want to flash the application binary to the device, follow the steps mentioned here (see Flash a Hello World example).

Sample output for Dhrystone benchmark example