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Subject: IBM benchmarks for X available in contrib on expo.
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Date: 24 Jul 89 15:37:48 GMT
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IBM has made available to the X Consortium its gemstones set of
benchmark programs.
Gemstones is an automated performance suite for X11.  The tar
file contains
o  Make.sh--a shell script that builds the entire suite,
   runs the benchmarks, and then formats the results.
o  bin directory--contains shell scripts to run various benchmarks.
   These may be altered and new ones added.
o  gen directory--directory with source modules used by
   all benchmarks.
o  directories with code for testing specific functions.
   -  arcs
   -  blits
   -  characters
   -  colors
   -  images
   -  lines
   -  points
   -  polys
   -  rects
   -  segments
   -  strings
   -  vectors.

Jeanne Smith