On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Aric Stewart aric@codeweavers.com wrote:
Very interesting. Here at CodeWeavers we have been very interested in benchmarking test and had very little luck finding ones that ran.
So out of curiosity, I just dug up my old copy of WinBench 96 and tried it again. The GUI has trouble measuring FILES= and the CRT's refresh rate, but the workaround of just killing and restarting described in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12267 still works.
This time I tried running the 32 bit CPU test. It launched ok and burned lots of CPU. When it finished burning CPU, I found a results file in c:\windows\temp\zd3.$$$ containing results:
[Test] Argument= Signature=Processor vendor prerelease 2 - expires Nov. 13, 1995. Not for distribution. Active=188 Result=5703.43485783837
So, there you go, my compaq presario r3000 is 20 times faster than a 133 MHz Pentium :-) http://www.imdl.gatech.edu/john/benchmarks.html
The GUI kept outputting err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7ef29420 "syslevel.c: Win16Mutex" wait timed out in thread 0019, blocked by 0022, retrying (60 sec) so something's screwed up, but at least I got some results out of the thing, which is a first.
The disk test also seems to get launched and do something; I'm tracking down a problem it has, and will follow up on that tomorrow.