Benchmark is a program which runs tests of your computer's hardware and system software. It checks what version of the system you are running and checks to see if your computer has a floating point unit (FPU) or math chip installed. I then runs three tests to see how fast you computer is.
Addition Speed
For the first test the computer performs 4,000,000 integer addition operations.
Division Speed
For the next test the machine does 15,000 division operations using extended precision numbers.
Random Number Speed
For the last test the computer generates 150,000 random numbers using the toolbox call Random().
Benchmark was written with QuickApp. QuickApp is a C++ applications framework designed for small jobs. All source code for the Benchmark program is included here. QuickApp comes with 12 other fun sample programs.
QuickApp is available from Emergent Behavior for $99.
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