Worldbench?

[Aric Stewart]

Very interesting.  Here at CodeWeavers we have been very interested in 
benchmarking test and had very little luck finding ones that ran. We 
have a very very old one called officebench (which is no longer even 
avalable) that does VB scripting of office which was the only one we 
could get working.  But it has been a while since we have tried them.

I do not recall if we tested worldbench directly but since I cannot seem 
to find a demo and we do not own it i am guessing we did no try it.

-aric

Dan Kegel wrote:
> 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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