I found an interesting program today and took it for a spin. I'm sure someone smarter than me can decipher this and get more out of it.
It's called PerformanceTest v5.0 (build 1017) and it does benchmarks on lots of different things. I didn't look into what, if any of this stuff depends on Win32. For all I know it's written in assembly. A quick look at the results seems to point at lots of Win32 stuff. You can download it from: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/PerformanceTest.shtml The installer runs fine under Wine. I wasn't able to run all the tests, but here's what I got results for on Wine (Fedora Core 3) and WinXP on the same hardware: CPU (nothing too interesting here): Windows Wine Integer math 201.5 209 MOps/sec Floating point 210.9 210.4 MOps/sec MMX 177.1 178.4 Million matrices/sec SSE/3DNow 132.6 136.8 Million matrices/sec Compression 1548.0 1634.8 KBytes/sec Encryption 7.2 7.0 MBytes/sec Image rotation 138.8 139.9 rotations/sec Random string sorting 362.2 355.8 thousand strings/sec CPU Mark 321.2 328.5 "composite score" ----------- 2D (interesting, but probably not news) Windows Wine Lines 75.8 39.5 thousand lines/sec Filled rectangles 39.2 19.1 thousand images/sec Unfilled shapes 26.1 8.7 thousand shapes/sec Fonts (won't run, RichEdit20 problem, native not tried) GUI 124.3 22.4 ops/second ----------- 3D (won't run to completion on Wine, I believe it's DX7-based) Simple 65.2 Medium 97.8 Complex 37.1 ----------- Memory (interesting) Windows Wine Allocate small block 676.5 248.8 MBytes/sec Read cached 1124.4 1132.6 MBytes/sec Read uncached 912.7 965.4 MBytes/sec Write 474.3 446.5 MBytes/sec Memory Mark 310.8 274.9 "composite score" ----------- Disk Windows Wine Sequential read 19.9 18.1 MBytes/sec Sequential write 12.5 14.4 MBytes/sec Random seek 2.2 3.2 MBytes/sec Disk Mark 91.3 94.1 "composite score" ----------- CD Read 1.1 1.2 MBytes/sec CD Mark 54.3 58.5 "composite score" I'm very impressed the 2D GUI runs through to completion. If you just run one test, give that a try. The system is a Celeron 2.2GHz laptop, SiS chipset for graphics, 256MB RAM. Total "Passmark" rating on XP was 185.8. Anything stand out to anyone? Anyone have any insights into the results? As far as an intepretation goes, seems fairly obvious to me and about what you'd expect.. apps with heavy CPU are comparable to Windows, 2D and 3D apps will suffer a big performance hit, and apps requiring heavy IO (memory, disk) might even get a small performance boost under Wine (because of Linux?) -Brian
