Geekbench Preview 3 for Rosetta review

Rosetta performance seems to be an area of concern for a number of Mac users; several people have asked us about measuring Rosetta performance with Geekbench.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Geek Patrol Price: $0.00 Updated: 17 May 2006

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Rosetta performance seems to be an area of concern for a number of Mac users; several people have asked us about measuring Rosetta performance with Geekbench.

Currently, Geekbench doesn't have any benchmarks that test Rosetta performance so, as a solution, we?ve released Geekbench Preview 2 for Rosetta, which is a PowerPC-only version of Geekbench Preview 2.
Geekbench Preview 2 for Rosetta will run natively on PowerPC-based Macs, but will run under Rosetta on Intel-based Macs, and should give an idea how efficient Rosetta is at translating PowerPC instructions. So, if you've got an iMac Core Duo or a MacBook Pro, download it and give it a try.

What's New:
Improved Blowfish benchmarks Blowfish results were artifically high on Mac OS X and Linux. This has been fixed.
Improved Stdlib Allocate benchmarks Stdlib Allocate results were artificially low on Mac OS X. This has been fixed.
System Information CPU counts (both physical and logical) are now reported reliably on Linux. Bus frequency is now reported on Windows.