Re: Apple II benchmarking software?

[apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

In article <odclb.33941$dk4.906877@typhoon.sonic.net>,
Andy McFadden  <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:
>Frank Townsend <ftownsen@nospam.net> wrote:
>> Other than timing for-next loops and so forth, was any software ever written
>> to compare Apple II performance?
>> 
>> I'm replacing my Transwarp GS 8k cache with a 32k cache and would like to
>> see to what degree performance improves.
>
>I don't think anybody wrote a formal benchmark.
>

I am aware of one set of pgms for evaluating apple2 performance.  It may
not be a formal "benchmark", but it is useful for testing performance,
especially of emulators.  Kent Dickey offered the program folder
"Speedtest" on the 'SAMPLES_IMAGE' hdrv images with his KEGS distribution.
The folder contains the original Dos3.3 Basic 'speedtest', and Kent's
modificaton 'speed_pro' for ProDOS.  The pgms can save performance
criteria to a text file which can be shared to compare performance in a
uniform manner.

If you can't get Kent's SAMPLE_IMAGE hdrv file, speedtest is available
(ftp/http) from ground.ecn.uiowa.edu:apple2/apple8/Pgms/speedtest.shk

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)