Fhourstones is an integer benchmark that efficiently solves positions in the game of Connect-4.
Available in both ANSI-C and Java, is is quite portable and compact (under 500 lines of source), and uses 50Mb of memory. The benchmark involves (after warming up on 3 easier positions) solving the entire game, which takes about half an hour on contemporary PCs.
Fhourstones was named as a pun on Dhrystone. (dhry sounds exactly like drei, German for three, so fhourstones is like dhrystone++)
Fhourstones 1.0 and previous results should be the same...
The Fhourstonesbenchmark (c4 for short) solves positions in connect-4, the well-known game played on a vertical board of 7 columns by 6 rows, where 2 players take turns in dropping 'stones' in a column.
The Fhourstones program (c4.shar and c4.doc) and latest results (c4.tbl, this table) can be obtained via anonymous ftp from 'ftp.nosc.mil' in directory 'pub/aburto'.
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