There are different ways to invoke the Benchmark program. QL/E comes ready with:
1. A started instance of QTop-Index visible as a button “TINDEX” at the bottom of the Desktop.
2. A Qascade menu entry in the Start Menu (“EXEC Benchmark (QTop-Index) TINDEX”).
3. A path to the exe, just enter EX TINDEX in a SBASIC CLI once the QL/E BOOT process has been completed.
4. For a quick start with a completely fresh machine without booting in the Desktop first, just press <ESC> during the 10 seconds BOOT countdown and then enter:
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LRESPR WIN1_sys_thorst_bin
EX WIN1_app_qtop_tindex
After the benchmark results are displayed you have the possibility to Save the results to a plain text file. You just have to enter a valid directory device as storage location and the program will save a the result file and screen-dump to it. The files are named TINDEX_* (e.g. TINDEX_1740949417_HBA_res and TINDEX_1740949417_HBA_res_scr).
This will then look like this: This Benchmark run resulted in a QTop-Index of 248.751 which is about 250 times faster than a good old unmodified 128KB Sinclair QL.
The TINDEX*res file will hold Content like this:
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TINDEX_res
1.07
2016 Mar 02 21:03:23
1740949403
32372
30846
HBA
x.xx
163840
0
0
0
0
512
256
0
TurboBASIC
0
100
1
win1_
0.023
0.070
0.139
0.349
0.093
0.013
0.687
248.751
QL/E v3.11 under SMSQmulator v2.12 on a Notebook with i7 CPU under Windows 7 64-bit
Thanks for sharing!
QL forever!