Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov!tohanson From: tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hanson) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks Subject: Re: X benchmarks Keywords: X Message-ID: <1991May31.121038.27049@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Date: 31 May 91 12:10:38 GMT References: Sender: news@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland] Lines: 56 > I'd appreciate any and all info about X performance benchmarks. > Are there any in the SPEC suite? No. Currently SPEC is CPU only. Note, they (SPEC) just announced a new suite (actually two programs) for benchmarking multiuser applications. SPEC and GPC (Graphics Performance Characterization) were looking at some joint work but now that NCGA is publishing GPC's benchmark results, I doubt if SPEC will offer any graphics benchmarks. > I'd like to see a list of X benchmarks for a variety of platforms. > Also, what are xstones and why do they only apply to X terminals? Xstones is a measure of several primitives versus sun 3/50 performance. This benchmark is worthless (IMHO) since failure to perform a certain task results in getting the same score as the sun. Xstones do apply to other than just X terminals but the benchmark is being replace by x11perf (see below). > What's X/Perf? x11perf is a test of the majority of X operations (drawing, pixel, window, etc.). It has been organized into 4 sections by Digital Review. A script to run the benchmark and organize the results is available from uunet.uu.net in unix-today/benchmarks. Enclosed is the README from this directory. To see an excellent example of standards oriented benchmarking, get the HP 700 series benchmark report from HP. Contents of the Unix Today! benchmarks directory. README -- this file. PROCEDURE -- Procedure used to benchmark X terminals for the 4/1/91 issue. x11perfcompDR -- Bourne shell script used to massage x11perf data. Used in 4/1/91 issue. 4191.bench.tar.Z -- Raw x11perf output files and x11perfcompDR output files used in Unix Today! 4/1/91 review. Includes PROCEDURE file above. "Unix Today!" is published twice a month by CMP Publications 600 Community Drive Manhasset, New York 11030 (516) 562-5000 > Thanks. Sure. Hope this helps. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Hanson - Scientific Graphics Programmer and Workstation Administrator NASA Lewis Research Center, MS 86-4, Cleveland, Ohio 44135 Telephone - (216) 433-2284 Fax - (216) 433-2182 tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov - ViSC: Better Science Through Pictures