So... I know it's been a LOT longer than a week... but I was going through my old posts.. and noticed several that I hadn't finished.

Well... I sat down and finished a very simple app. It's all of the Open Source variety.

Here's what I think would be good to have happen::

1. Unzip it all to some directory.
2. Run either of the Standalone EXEs.

There are comments in the FLA about what's going on, but, the first four buttons run a time test on loading the 'largeXML' format, and 5-9 run time tests on loading the 'smallXML' format. I was planing later on to add functionality so that the 10th button could test a file of the end users choosing - but I haven't yet.

So... How about we adopt a standard convention for these tests?

1. Close all Apps that might be running, either in the foreground or in the background, if you can.
2. Each 'button/test' must be run 10 times in succession.
3. Take those 10 times and find the average for that 'button/test'.

When you post your results, please do so as an addition to this thread, and please use this format::

CPU: speed, type
RAM: size, type
HD: capacity, spin rate, transfer rate, type
Test1: avg. time
Test2: avg. time
Test3: avg. time
Test4: avg. time
Test5: avg. time
Test6: avg. time
Test7: avg. time
Test8: avg. time
Test9: avg. time
Test10: avg. time

So.... for my computer it would look like this:

CPU: 450MHz, AMDK6-2
RAM: 300MB, SDRAM
HD: 20GB, 7200rpm, ATA66, IDE
Test1: blah
Test2: blah
Test3: blah
Test4: blah
Test5: blah
Test6: blah
Test7: blah
Test8: blah
Test9: blah
Test10: blah

For my friends computer it would look like this:

CPU: 1GHz, PIII
RAM: 256MB, SDRAM
HD: 80GB/(2x)40GB, 7200rpm, ATA100, RAID-0 (Striped)
Test1: blah
Test2: blah
Test3: blah
Test4: blah
Test5: blah
Test6: blah
Test7: blah
Test8: blah
Test9: blah
Test10: blah


Does that make sense???

I'm not sure, but I think that's all we really need to know about hardware... if anybody else has suggestions - let us know.

OH - and the link to DL the Zip file::

http://www.curtismorley.com/x/timeTe..._childNode.zip

Test away!