Xmark(1)

💅 Xmark(1) — like, the x11perf vibe-checker, bestie

okay so real quick, this is Xmark from the General Commands Manual section, and I'm literally obsessed with how simple it is. it's a shell script. it reads a file and does math. that's the whole plot. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Xmark — summarize x11perf results 🦋

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🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

Xmark datafile

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so Xmark is a shell script, right? it reads the datafile you point it at, and it compiles a benchmark from it, and then it writes that benchmark to standard output. and what comes out is three numbers, periodt:

• a weighted performance number for the x11perf results 🔥
• a weighted performance number for a standard SparcStation 1, with SunOS 4.1.2, X11R5 Xsun, and a CG3 dumb Color Frame Buffer 😭 (she's vintage, she's iconic, she's a dumb color frame buffer)
• the Xmark, which is just the ratio of the two numbers above 💅

the datafile has to be an ordinary file, and it has to be produced by x11perf, like this:

x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy GXxor -all > datafile

and ngl you can run the GXcopy and GXxor tests separately — as long as you concatenate them into the same output file 🫶 like so:

x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all > datafile
x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all >> datafile

or, flip mode, equally valid:

x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all > datafile
x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all >> datafile

either order, she does not care ⭐

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• temp.$$ — a temporary file created in the current directory, deleted after use. lowkey just passing through, no cap 🙈

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

these are the messages she throws when something's off:

• Usage: Xmark datafile — you invoked Xmark without arguments, or with more than one argument, or with options. and bestie, Xmark takes no options. none. zero. don't try it 💅
• Error: data file does not exist or is not ordinary. — Xmark cannot find the datafile you named on the command line, or the datafile is a special file, like a directory 😭
• WARNING: datafile contains nnn, not 441 or 447 'trep' results; — the file you named on the command line does not seem to be a file generated by x11perf in the expected way. she's side-eyeing your file fr fr 🍓
• Diagnostic: ERROR: sum of weights =nnn, not equal to 4566.0; — there is an internal error in Xmark. that's a her-problem, not a you-problem 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• X(7)
• x11perf(1)
• x11perfcomp(1)

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ok that's the whole page!! go run your benchmarks, hydrate, and remember: ordinary files only 💜

✧･ﾟ X Version 11 · x11perf 1.7.0 · mwah, catch you on the flip side ✧･ﾟ