Overview
~~~~~~~~

 PicBench is a picture viewer and benchmark program using datatypes.

Purpose
~~~~~~~

 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~

 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)

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                 2014    4864  41.4% -lh5- 3eb1 Mar  9  1998 PicBench/akJFIF.readme
[generic]                  100     271  36.9% -lh5- 80c2 Mar  9  1998 PicBench/BenchMark
[generic]                 2362    2396  98.6% -lh5- 4728 Mar  9  1998 PicBench/Dither.PNG
[generic]                 2426    2503  96.9% -lh5- 6906 Mar  9  1998 PicBench/NoDither.PNG
[generic]                 5644    9236  61.1% -lh5- f2c0 Mar  9  1998 PicBench/PicBench
[generic]                  810    1549  52.3% -lh5- dd46 Mar  9  1998 PicBench/README
[generic]                 1624    1693  95.9% -lh5- 2ab4 Mar  9  1998 PicBench/Speed.PNG
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         7 files   14980   22512  66.5%            Mar  9  1998