The TouchXPRT 2016 design overview will tell you what we’re planning for the upcoming community preview. Thanks to everyone who’s contributed ideas. Let us know if the design overview omits anything you’d like to see in the benchmark.

The MobileXPRT 2015 source code and the instructions for building MobileXPRT 2015 will be available as well. Community members have access to the source for all the XPRT benchmarks. Making the source available is a pillar of the community model.

Look for the design overview and source code in the members’ area.

If you aren’t yet a member, this is a great time to join!

Eric

Posted in Collaborative benchmark development, MobileXPRT, MobileXPRT 2015, TouchXPRT, TouchXPRT 2016, TouchXPRT development process, TouchXPRT release cycle |

Impressed and Excited

By Eric Hale

on September 17, 2015

A couple of weeks ago we talked about some initiatives we’ve been exploring. This week, we’re happy to be able to talk about a new project. We’re sponsoring a senior project with the computer science department at North Carolina State University (NCSU).

As part of their education, small teams of seniors work with local companies on various programming projects. The students are expected to put significant time into these projects, and the tasks aren’t easy. You can get a sense of the range and complexity of these projects by looking at past project proposals.

We submitted a proposal for creating an experimental benchmark test to NCSU and they accepted it and assigned us a team of students. I’ve met a couple of times now with them. I’m impressed and very excited about what they’re going to do. We’re not ready to talk about the project yet, but if they’re successful, we’ll make the new test available on the BenchmarkXPRT site. We might even include it in a future XPRT!

Our hope is that if this project is successful, we can replicate it at other schools and help train the next generation of benchmark developers. As a bonus, the BenchmarkXPRT community will get some fresh perspectives and some new experimental test tools.

Eric

Posted in BenchmarkXPRT development community, Collaborative benchmark development, Future of performance evaluation |

BenchmarkXPRT in China

By Eric Hale

on September 10, 2015

Last week, we talked about some of the changes we’re making to the BenchmarkXPRT site to make it easier to use. This week, we’d like to talk a bit about improvements we’ve been making to support our users in China.

As you may remember, the first of the XPRTs to have a Chinese UI was BatteryXPRT. We’ve since released WebXPRT 2015 and MobileXPRT 2015, both of which have also have Chinese UIs. We’re also in the process of getting MobileXPRT 2015 listed in several major Chinese app stores. (MobileXPRT 2013 is currently available from Xiaomi and Zhushou 360.)

In other words, we’re always thinking of ways to enhance the XPRT experience for our users in China. To improve download speeds, we’ve long hosted WebXPRT on a mirror site in Singapore. Recently, based on feedback from our users and our own analysis, we’ve changed the way that the privacy notice is displayed on that site. The change allows you to run WebXPRT without loading any Google analytics, which means faster load times for all users.

We will continue to work to improve our localization. This is an area where we can use the help of the community. If you have translation skills and want to contribute the strings for a UI in your language, let us know.

Eric

Last week in the XPRTs

We added a new TouchXPRT result
We added a new HDXPRT result

Posted in BatteryXPRT 2014 for Android, BenchmarkXPRT, BenchmarkXPRT development community, Chinese, Collaborative benchmark development, MobileXPRT, MobileXPRT 2013 source, MobileXPRT 2015, WebXPRT 2015 |

Refining

By Eric Hale

on September 3, 2015

You may have noticed that we’ve been making some changes to the BenchmarkXPRT pages. We’ve posted links to recent results on the main BenchmarkXPRT page, added a “What’s hot” box highlighting the most recent postings, made it easier to use the benchmark viewer to navigate across benchmarks, and more. We’ll also be including links to the latest news at the end of the blog each week.

The goal of these changes is to make it easier for you to find the information you want, with particular emphasis on making the most recent events easy to find. This is an ongoing process, and we expect to be making additional incremental changes to the pages in the weeks and months ahead.

If you’re a regular user of the BenchmarkXPRT pages, we’d love to hear from you! Are there things you have trouble finding? Do you have any ideas about how to improve the navigation? Is there anything you think works particularly well and do not want to change? All ideas, compliments, and complaints are welcome.

Eric

Last week in the XPRTs

We released MobileXPRT 2015
We added three new TouchXPRT results
We added three new HDXPRT results

Posted in BenchmarkXPRT, BenchmarkXPRT development community, MobileXPRT, MobileXPRT 2015 |

Month: September 2015

MobileXPRT 2015 source code and TouchXPRT 2016 Design Overview are available

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Impressed and Excited

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Last week in the XPRTs

Refining

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