Sean Christmann's Blog
I have recently released a new benchmark called GUIMark. GUIMark is kinda
like an Acid3 test that’s geared towards RIA technologies. The goal was to
figure out how to implement a reference design in different runtimes and then
benchmark how smoothly that design could be animated. So far I have
implementations in DHTML, Flex, Java, Silverlight 1 and Silverlight 2.
GUIMark shares a lot in common with another RIA benchmark Bubblemark. I’ve
written a bit about Bubblemark and why I think an alternative is necessary,
but I do believe Bubblemark and GUIMark can coexist while serving 2 different
purposes. Alexey Gavrilov stated it best in that he sees Bubblemark as a
sortof ‘Hello World’ launchpad into comparing different environments and
I agree with him.... (more)