[PD] GUI speed test

[Martin Peach]

I got:

REALTIME: 73.6744
REALTIME: 22.4142
REALTIME: 21.4316
REALTIME: 22.3956

on four successive tries with Pd version 0.40.3-extended-20070905 on WinXP 
with dual Pentium 4 2.4GHz. I guess the first time loaded it into the disk 
cache or something like that. Anyway it seems like the other cpu is just for 
decoration.

Martin


>From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>
>To: PD list <pd-list at iem.at>
>Subject: [PD] GUI speed test
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:01:03 -0500
>
>
>I devised a quick test of loading speed and did some quick  comparisons on 
>my MacBook Pro 2.4GHz.  (I am used to having one of  the slowest machines 
>around, my old 800Mhz Powerbook, so I still have  to readjust my thinking). 
>  Here's my times:
>
>14ms	Pd-0.39.3-extended
>6.5ms 	Pd-0.40-2 vanilla
>16ms	Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071111
>
>So on the face of it, it looks like really large time differences.   
>Percentage-wise it is a large difference, but perceptually, waiting  7ms 
>vs. 16ms for something to load is not at all meaningful.  No  human could 
>tell the difference in the experience unless you were  generating sounds 
>and visuals based on the opening and closing of the  patch.
>
>This is, of course, on a fast machine.  300ms vs 800ms would be a big  
>perceptual difference, basically it would be the feeling of opening  quick 
>versus a wait.
>
>I'd be interested to see how this fares on other machines and OSes.   I 
>attached the patches
>


><< speedtest.zip >>


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>.hc
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