Re: Q4 2009 report

[Steve Sakoman <sakoman gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Tuomas Kulve <tuomas kulve movial com> wrote:
> Steve Sakoman wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
>>
>>> * I suggested launching an ARM performance drive, the idea gained some
>>> traction, but we still don't have any test suite put together. The next
>>> step here would be to have a test suite (any test suite) up & running &
>>> reporting regularly performance metrics for ARM & x86, so that we can
>>> identify things to target for improvement. I suggest getting the GTK+
>>> and Cairo tests, and using those as a starting point.
>>
>> I do regular builds of Gnome for OMAP3 machines like Beagleboard and
>> Overo.  The images are available at:  http://www.sakoman.com
>>
>> I'll start running the gtkperf and the Cairo tests each release.
>
> This might be a bit OT already but mx11mark could be one useful
> benchmarking tool as well. It measures mainly the xrender performance on
> the relevant parts. So basically, without a hw accelerated X.Org 2d
> driver, it measures the pixman performance.
>
>
> http://sandbox.movial.com/wiki/index.php/Mx11mark

Thanks for the pointer.  I'll try to build & run mx11mark this week.

Steve


> "Movial X11 Mark is a customizable tool for benchmarking X11 operations.
> It was created for the purpose of executing benchmarks that approximate
> the profile of real-life applications, instead of a synthetic set of
> tests that existing tools use. The sequence of benchmarks to run, as
> well as some overall parameters, is defined by a simple script file."
>
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