yCPUBench is a benchmarking utility to measure the speed and performance of your Palm OS handhelds CPU.
yCPUBench can measure an OS 5 handhelds native ARM CPU's performance using ARM-pnolets, as well being able to measuring 68k (PACE emulated) performance for comparison. Includes floating point math performance (megaflops) and memory bandwidth tests.
Free for personal non-commercial use.
What's New in This Release:
· Updated with Codewarrior v9.3 PNOlets.
· Improved results display.
· Tested for preliminary Cobalt/OS 6 compatibility.
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Supported operating systems:
Palm OS 3.x, Palm OS 4.x, Palm OS 5.x
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