It's hard to keep the benchmark programs straight.
I ran into one called Worldbench today in this review http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/27/AR2009012703... and I see it's used quite a bit: http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/102908-hps-mini-1000-a-new.html
It would be nice if we didn't see reviews like this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/142724/200_linux_desktop_systems_are_no_barga... which say "Because these PCs run Linux, not Windows, we couldn't run our WorldBench 6 Beta 2 test suite on them."
It looks like Worldbench 6 has been stuck at beta 2 for a long time, so people still reference Worldbench 5 scores. More info:
http://www.worldbench.com/ http://www.pcworld.com/article/122812/how_we_test.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/116888/pc_worlds_worldbench_50.html
The benchmark costs $250. Has anybody here tried it on Wine? - Dan
Very interesting. Here at CodeWeavers we have been very interested in benchmarking test and had very little luck finding ones that ran. We have a very very old one called officebench (which is no longer even avalable) that does VB scripting of office which was the only one we could get working. But it has been a while since we have tried them.
I do not recall if we tested worldbench directly but since I cannot seem to find a demo and we do not own it i am guessing we did no try it.
-aric
Dan Kegel wrote:
It's hard to keep the benchmark programs straight.
I ran into one called Worldbench today in this review http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/27/AR2009012703... and I see it's used quite a bit: http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/102908-hps-mini-1000-a-new.html
It would be nice if we didn't see reviews like this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/142724/200_linux_desktop_systems_are_no_barga... which say "Because these PCs run Linux, not Windows, we couldn't run our WorldBench 6 Beta 2 test suite on them."
It looks like Worldbench 6 has been stuck at beta 2 for a long time, so people still reference Worldbench 5 scores. More info:
http://www.worldbench.com/ http://www.pcworld.com/article/122812/how_we_test.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/116888/pc_worlds_worldbench_50.html
The benchmark costs $250. Has anybody here tried it on Wine?
- Dan
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.
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Dan Kegel