Worldbench?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Wed Jan 28 07:32:14 CST 2009


It's hard to keep the benchmark programs straight.

I ran into one called Worldbench today in
this review
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/27/AR2009012703019.html
and I see it's used quite a bit:
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/102908-hps-mini-1000-a-new.html

It would be nice if we didn't see reviews like this:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/142724/200_linux_desktop_systems_are_no_bargain.html
which say
"Because these PCs run Linux, not Windows, we couldn't run our
WorldBench 6 Beta 2 test suite on them."

It looks like Worldbench 6 has been stuck at beta 2 for a long time,
so people still reference Worldbench 5 scores.
More info:

http://www.worldbench.com/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/122812/how_we_test.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/116888/pc_worlds_worldbench_50.html

The benchmark costs $250.  Has anybody here tried it on Wine?
- Dan



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