stream(8)

📦 version 3.0-a9, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 stream(8) — the LMBENCH girlies' fave 💖

okay bestie, welcome to stream(8), one of the little icons living inside the LMBENCH manual. she's short, she's sweet, she measures memory bandwidth, and she is lowkey a legend. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

stream — John McCalpin's STREAM benchmark, no cap 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

stream [ -M <len> ] [ -W <warmups> ] [ -N <repetitions> ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. three little flags and she's ready to go 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea ☕ — stream is a lil mimic of John McCalpin's STREAM benchmark. same energy, same whole point: it measures memory bandwidth. that's literally her entire job and she ate, fr fr 🔥

like, she's not out here doing fifty things. she does the one thing, and she does it beautifully. main character energy honestly 👑

✨ BUGS ✨

not me admitting this in the docs 😭 — stream is an experimental benchmark. yes, experimental, as in "we're still figuring her out." but plot twist: she seems to work well on most systems ✨ so like, she's a little chaotic, a little unhinged, but she shows up and she delivers 🫶

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole friend group, gathered for the group chat 🎀

go say hi to all of them, they're all iconic in their own ways 💜

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this masterpiece was brought to you by the one and only duo: Carl Staelin and Larry McVoy 👑👑

and bestie, listen — comments, suggestions, and bug reports are always welcome. they said it themselves. so if you've got thoughts, spill. they wanna hear from you, fr 🙈💖

🌟 cute little sign-off time: this page is from the LMBENCH source, it's tagged (c)2000 Carl Staelin and Larry McVoy, it's got that $Date$ version magic in it, and yeah — she's stream(8) through and through. periodt. 💅🌸🦋
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