Benchmarks Mean Squat

I just read a claim that JavaFX benchmarked at 186 fps. I thought that was pretty impressive. I had to check it out. I followed the link to the BubbleMark site and tried the JavaFX jnlp on both JDK1.6.0_05 and JDK1.6.0_10 preview release. Both performed miserably. 9 FPS!!

My machine's specs:

• Ubuntu 7.10 - Gnome Desktop (Compiz turned off)
• Duel Core 2.1GHz
• 4GB RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT (256MB)

All this proves really is that benchmarks mean squat.

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Posted by Gregg Bolinger on April 6, 2008 7:52:00 PM CDT #