Month: February 2022

SDL Benchmark tool released

Do you want to know how SDL 1.2, SDL 2 and SFML libraries perform in a 2D environment with hundred of sprites? Well, those libraries with several render backends (DirectDraw, Direct3D, OpenGL, software) are tested with this tool. For SDL 2, the new “batching” feature was also enabled and the results are very good. The…


Memory Bandwidth Benchmark tool released

Since 2002, this tool has been internally used for measuring memory bandwidth performance on different CPU architectures and, that “knowledge” was used on CRM32Pro (specific code paths) and also in other applications. Nowadays, this tools has been reworked and it is a complete memory bandwidth benchmark. The source code is available and also binaries for…