Posts Tagged “benchmarks”

I benchmark some tool or show you how to benchmark your system

• POV-ray Dice 22 February 2022
  • benchmarks
  • computer-graphics
  • performance
  • snippet

  I saw a captcha with dice thread on hacker news. The general idea of the captcha was to find the picture of dice with the right sum on it. I was wondering how hard it would be to generate several thousand of these dice images, and how long it would take using POV-ray. POV-ray is the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer. It takes a text based description of the scene built using various primitives like spheres and boxes to produce a ray traced image. The POV-ray language is Turing complete and allows some really advanced programming features, such as macros, loops and conditionals, which I take full advantage of for this scene. The dice are even transparent.

• Quick and Dirty I/O Benchmark for Linux 25 June 2016
  • benchmarks
  • linux
  • performance

  A quick and dirty benchmark to see how much I/O bandwidth your machine has is as follows. I created this because I just learned about pv, and I’m sure its been done before.