Re: GS Speed test

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:
> 
> Andrew Webber asked:
> 
> >Is there any program that will benchmark a GS? I want to compare some
> >ZIP configurations, and would like to rely on a program rather that my
> >stop watch :-)
> 
> Ah, benchmarking...
> 
> If you just want to know what the max speed is, check the processor
> clock frequency.
> 
> But if you want to know how much faster it will do some task that
> you care about, you're pretty much in stopwatch territory.  In principle
> it would be possible to use the internal IIgs clock to automatically
> time an application, but since most applications you would care about
> are interactive and don't run from an EXEC file, automating the clock
> reading isn't worth the trouble.
> 
> -michael

I couldn't think of any way to benchmark my IIgs when I was upgrading.
I ended up using a stopwatch. I timed a shift boot which I didn't
consider 
too accurate since the duration of the boot was so short. I also tried 
converting a huge AppleWorks 3 over to AWGS(I think it was about 850k). 
Not scientific but I wanted to get a feel as to how larger cache at
lower 
speed would compare with a smaller cache and more mhz. At the time when 
I was buying accelerators the choices available seemed to be 7mhz32k 
cache and 8mhz16k cache.

	Wayne