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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Benchmarking X "stuff"
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Date: 31 Dec 88 17:04:05 GMT
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    More seriously, there are some
    benchmarks used within the X testing working group of the X Consortium.

The X Testing Consortium is not (currently) part of the MIT X Consortium
(since it actually started before the X Consortium did) although it has
been agreed that they will "disband" and reformulate under the X Consortium
once their current work (on server and Xlib test suites) has been completed.
The benchmarks referred to are being developed by CalComp; an early version
was presented in a talk at last year's X Conference.

    I do not know if (or when) these benchmarks may be made
    public (Bob, could you comment?).

Good question, and one that I don't have complete control over.  The current
position of the X Testing Consortium, as I understand it, is that none of
the software will be made generally available until the entire effort is
complete, which will be sometime in 1989.  However, the X Consortium has a
policy that MIT will not itself distribute benchmarks until after they have
been reviewed within the Consortium (this of course does not place any
restrictions on others distributing benchmarks).  We've been doing some
benchmark development of our own (and giving opinions to CalComp on their
benchmarks), and we understand that some folks at DEC have also been
developing some (and that DEC may be interested in getting theirs reviewed).