Short:        Datatype picture viewer & benchmark V1.1
Author:       J.Uerpmann@tu-bs.de (Jan Uerpmann)
Uploader:     J Uerpmann tu-bs de (Jan Uerpmann)
Type:         util/dtype
Version:      1.1
Requires:     OS 3.1
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Kurz:         Benchmark Programm für Datatypes V1.1

Overview
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 PicBench is a picture viewer and benchmark program using datatypes.

Purpose
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 Show pictures or benchmark your datatypes. The program is capable
 of timing the call of NewDTObjectA().

 Included are benchmarks of akJFIF.datatype running on
 040-25/PPC604e-200 and 060-50/PPC604e-200 and a batch
 file used to create them.

Installation
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 Just copy the drawer anywhere you like.

Included Material
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Included are some benchmarks of the akJFIF.datatype by Andreas Kleinert.
 There are some speed comparisons between 68040-25, 68060-25 and PPC604e-200.

 The tests were done using the batchfile 'BenchMark' (The JPEG-images can
 be found on Aminet, see akJFIF.Benchmark) using various prefs.
 The results (speed increase relative to 040-25) are shown in three diagrams:

 NoDither.PNG and Dither.PNG:
  This diagrams shows the speed increase while loading the specified
  image with 'Dither=None (V43)' and 'Dither=Floyd-Steinberg (V40)'.

 Speed.PNG:
  The average speed increase is shown. (Notice the influence of the 68k CPU!)

 If you have another configuration (anyone with a 604-233 or better?) you
 are free to send them to me ;-)

 (There will be a website soon at
 <http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0002723/english/benchmark.html> showing the results)