Lamark Changelog

What's new in Lamark 0.95.165

Sep 1, 2009
  • Added GDI performance test
  • Added disk performance test writting using memory mapped access if available to a file in order to assure maximum performance
  • Assembly loops are now aligned in a paragraph instead of in a double word boundary, making CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks more precise
  • Enhanced progress bars to be animated on the first time

New in Lamark 0.92.134 (Nov 21, 2008)

  • Updated to C++ Builder 2009 Update 1
  • Source portability improvements
  • Other minor changes

New in Lamark 0.92.130 (Nov 4, 2008)

  • Proper Hyperthreading detection, scores are not doubled anymore when it is enabled; result submission also includes CPU Speed; old 0.91 results available in the archive; trimmed extra spaces that sometimes ocurred on the information pane; other code enhancements.

New in Lamark 0.91.118 Beta (Oct 17, 2008)

  • Now users are able to submit its results and compare them with others
  • Memory performance is doing writing data instead of reading, workspace has been reduced, and so minimum system requirements
  • Lots of code refactoring and optimization

New in Lamark 0.90.107 Beta (Oct 15, 2008)

  • Results are normalized now to a Intel Dual Core T2330 1,6 Ghz with 2 Gb DDR2-667 memory
  • Even the change in 0.80.101 requiring more elapsed time to get an accurate measure, process is now smoother
  • Enhanced GetTickCount precission by using timeGetTime for better precision
  • Memory size report now supports more than 3 Gb of installed memory in Windows 2000 and later
  • Expanded CPU test
  • Memory test, now uses a bigger testing workspace

New in Lamark 0.80.101 Beta (Oct 14, 2008)

  • Important bug introduced in 0.50.45 calculating elapsed time was fixed (not taking care of performance counter frequency), it produced totally wrong results
  • Due to lack of consistency in CPU manufacturer, timmings has been replaced by the old less precise GetTickCount(), major changes has been needed to it
  • Memory test uses MMX if available, else it uses and improved x86 code
  • Rewritten CPU benchmark to make it more complete and paralelizable
  • Added loop alignments to all tests to homogenize results and maximize throughtput
  • F1 for help file

New in Lamark 0.70.63 Beta (Oct 13, 2008)

  • Compacted user interface, 1024x768 is not needed anymore
  • Run in high priority
  • Removed hourglass pointer
  • Improved task scheduling
  • Link to home page
  • Memory information

New in Lamark 0.20.22 Beta (Sep 23, 2008)

  • Version 0.20.22 Beta
  • Reduced Windows memory allocation. Included CHM help file.
  • Fixed EXE icon.
  • Minor fixes
  • Upgraded to C++ BUilder 2009
  • Compressed with UPX instead of UPack to avoid AV false positives Source code available