[Rpcemu] RISC OS 5.17 benchmarked against 4.02

[Tony Moore]

On 23 Oct 2012, george greenfield <george.greenfield at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> I recently ran Richard Spencer‘s benchmarking app romark 1.01 on both
> my RPCEmu installations (0.8.8/5.17 and 0.8.9/4.02 respectively). Here
> are the results (0.8.8/5.17 first, % advantage of 0.8.8/5.17 last):

I've now carried out the same exercise on my own installation comprising
0.8.9/5.19 and 0.8.9/4.39 running on Win7 (32bit) on a 1.6GHz Core2 Duo
machine. Both virtual machines have 256MB memory. My screen resolution
is 1360x768. For ease of comparison, my results are appended to yours:

     George                  Tony

1.   572562; 592026;  97%    269685, 283301,   95%
2.     9139;   9380;  97%      3060,   2381,  129%
3    . 3665;   3053; 120%      1246,   1014,  123%
4.    11389;   6429; 177%      4573,   2148,  213%
5.     4198;   3060; 137%      1638,   1148,  143%
6.     4831;   3591; 135%      1898,   1526,  124%
7.    99020;  21340; 464%     87192,   8302, 1050%
8.    74777;  25683; 291%     93275,   8861, 1053%
9.     3525;   2322; 152%      1487,   1085,  137%
10.    3006;   1861; 162%      1348,    730,  185%

My results confirm your conclusion that, under emulation, RO 5.xx is
considerably faster than RO 4.xx. The differential for tests 7 and 8 (HD
Read and HD Write) is even more striking.

Tony