====== Benchmarks ======

This benchmarks section aims at evaluating the performance of various MacOS emulators. So far, only [[en:projects:basilisk2|Basilisk II]], [[en:projects:sheepshaver|SheepShaver]] and [[http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/|PearPC]] are compared against a real PowerMac system.

===== Test Platforms =====

  * PowerPC 7410 at 400 MHz, MacOS X 10.2.8
  * Xeon at 3.2 GHz, Mandrakelinux 10.1 for x86-64

===== Test Programs =====

  * [[en:projects:benchmarks:nbench|nBench]] is a port of the BYTEmark benchmark to Linux/Unix platforms.
  * [[en:projects:benchmarks:altivec|AltiVec Fractal Carbon]] is a numerically-intensive parallel graphics application that uses the Velocity Engine, a.k.a. AltiVec for its computations.