Jarred Capellman / Random Texels Manipulating 1s and 0s since 1995

15Jan/120

jcBENCH Android Port Released

Posted by Jarred Capellman

After some additional work getting used to the XAML-ish layout I'm done with the initial jcBENCH Android port. You can download it from here. You will need Android 2.2 or higher for it to run.

jcBENCH Android

I've only tested this on a Dual 1.2ghz HTC Vivid. However, the results were interesting. Comparing single-threaded and multi-threaded operations was curious. Running it in multi-threaded mode was actually 3 times slower. I'm not sure if the way the Task Parallel Library was implemented on Monodroid was done poorly or if there is a bug in the detection for how many cores/cpus there are inside the Mono implementation or not, but something isn't right. Single threaded versus my HTC Titan 1.5ghz SnapDragon it lost out by ~23%. Which makes sense, 300mhz difference or 20% comparing single cores to each other.

All that being said I'm content with jcBENCH for the moment until I hear feedback or come up with more features to add.