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From: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: benchmarking postscript processors
Message-ID: <3405@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 89 01:23:28 GMT
References: <13436@nsc.nsc.com>
Reply-To: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence)
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas
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In article <13436@nsc.nsc.com> chaim@nsc.nsc.com (Chaim Bendelac) writes:
>Is there a "standard" and reasonably repeatable way to measure the
>real performance of a postscript processor? Are there any "standard"
>(public-domain) benchmark used for this purpose?

There was a set of "job-level" benchmarks in the Seybold Report a few
months ago.  For example, one just had lots of body text, another was
heavy on halftones and clipping, etc.  They ran the tests on a whole
bunch of PostScript imagesetters, but they would be applicable to any
PS output device.  There were some really strange results, like an 
Adobe interpreter that gave different times each time one of the bench-
marks was run (from scratch!).  Some of the interpreters choked on very
large images, others displayed memory management bugs, ad nauseam. 

Someone else asked this question a while back, and I suggested calling
Seybold to see if they'd send a copy of the benchmark files.  I don't 
know whether that happened or not.

-- 
Larry Spence
larry@csccat
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