Re: Is there a "GSbench"?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <swhite-3011972327290001@d84.loop.interaccess.com>,
Steve White <swhite@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>Having played around comparing my ROM1 GS to the latest incarnation of
>Bernie on my Mac, I'm curious to find out if anyone has created a
>"GSbench" type program, along the lines of MacBench and WinBench/WinStone.

   One of the reasons for those benchmarks is that you can have 50
gazillion system combinations of processors, motherboards, ram,
graphics cards, etc. With the GS, a lot of those variables are reduced
to constants. You have two possible motherboards, one graphics system,
one ram speed, etc. Processors and disk thruput are about the only
things that really have some kinds of variation on the GS.

   You can check processor speed with the 'dhrystone' benchmark
program included with GNO/ME; it gives a raw benchmark for stuff,
though it is quite cache-bound. [Zip 9/32 gets double the dhrystones
of the 7/8] Disk speed can be checked with ProSEL-16; it behchmarks
several tests, etc.

Nathan Mates


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