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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:32:04 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
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Subject: Re: Dhrystone -- userland version
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On Monday 2023-01-09 01:45, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 07:47:07PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> > However, as this is not Linux-specific, how hard can it be to convince
>> > your distro to include https://github.com/qris/dhrystone-deb.git?
>> > Usually, when I have a full userspace available, I just clone the above,
>> > and debuild it myself.
>> 
>> Dunno. I'd not solve it if package was in Debian, but it is not.
>
>I would suspect the better long-term solution would be to get the
>package into Debian, since that will be easier for people to use.  I
>suspect the reason why most distros don't include it is because it
>really is a **terrible** benchmark for most use cases.

(All of) you could install boinc-client and just exercise
--run_cpu_benchmarks without (I think) attaching to any particular
computing project. The package should be in distros and you get
both Dhrystone and Whetstone.