Whetstone

Whetstone may refer to:

  • Whetstone, a sharpening stone used for knives and other cutting tools
  • Hornfels, known by miners in northern England as whetstone
  • Whetstone (surname)
  • Whetstone (benchmark), a benchmark for measuring computing power
  • Operation Whetstone, a nuclear test program in the 1960s
  • Whetstone, a fictional county in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  • Places

    United Kingdom

  • Whetstone, Leicestershire, a village and civil parish
  • Whetstone, London
  • Whetstones (stone circle), an ancient pagan monument in Shropshire
  • United States

  • Whetstone, Arizona, a census-designated place
  • Whetstone, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • The Whetstone River in South Dakota and Minnesota
  • Whetstone High School (Columbus, Ohio), a high school located in the Clintonville suburb of Columbus, Ohio
  • See also

  • Wheatstone (disambiguation)
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 26 October 2004 for the PlayStation 2 console, and on 7 June 2005 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. It is the seventh title in the Grand Theft Auto series, and the first main entry since 2002's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It was released on the same day as the handheld game Grand Theft Auto Advance.

    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is played from a third-person perspective in an open world environment, allowing the player to interact with the game world at their leisure. The game is set within the fictional US state of San Andreas, which is heavily based on California and Nevada. The state of San Andreas consists of three metropolitan cities: Los Santos, based on Los Angeles; San Fierro, based on San Francisco; and Las Venturas, based on Las Vegas. The single-player story follows Carl "CJ" Johnson, who returns home to Los Santos after learning of his mother's murder. CJ finds his old friends and family in disarray, and over the course of the game he attempts to re-establish his old gang, clashes with corrupt cops, and gradually unravels the truth behind his mother's murder. The plot is based on multiple real-life events in Los Angeles, including the rivalry between the Bloods and Crips street gangs, the 1980s crack epidemic, the LAPD Rampart scandal, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

    Whetstone (benchmark)

    The Whetstone benchmark is a synthetic benchmark for evaluating the performance of computers. It was first written in Algol 60 in 1972 at TSU (The Technical Support Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry - later part of the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency or CCTA in the United Kingdom). It was derived from statistics on program behaviour gathered on the KDF9 computer at NPL National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom, using a modified version of its Whetstone ALGOL 60 compiler. The workload on the machine was represented as a set of frequencies of execution of the 124 instructions of the Whetstone Code. The Whetstone Compiler was built at the Atomic Power Division of the English Electric Company in Whetstone, Leicestershire, England, hence its name. Dr. B.A. Wichman at NPL produced a set of 42 simple ALGOL 60 statements, which in a suitable combination matched the execution statistics.

    To make a more practical benchmark Harold Curnow of TSU wrote a program incorporating the 42 statements. This program worked in its ALGOL 60 version, but when translated into FORTRAN it was not executed correctly by the IBM optimizing compiler. Calculations whose results were not output were omitted. He then produced a set of program fragments which were more like real code and which collectively matched the original 124 Whetstone instructions. Timing this program gave a measure of the machine’s speed in thousands of Whetstone instructions per second (kWips) The Fortran version became the first general purpose benchmark that set industry standards of computer system performance. Further development was carried out by Roy Longbottom, also of TSU/CCTA, who became the official design authority. The ALGOL 60 program ran under the Whetstone compiler in July 2010, for the first time since the last KDF9 was shut down in 1980, but now executed by a KDF9 emulator.

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    Chillicothe Gazette 20 Mar 2025
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    County finalizes financing for Whetstone housing

    Crested Butte News 06 Mar 2025
    Gunnison County commissioners on Tuesday finalized the financial plans for the county’s Whetstone Community Housing project located two miles south of Crested Butte ... [Gunnison County] will be the developer and owner of [Whetstone],” said Birnie.
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