X11PERFCOMP(1)

X11PERFCOMP(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

okay so you found the x11perfcomp page, bestie — welcome to the X11 server performance comparison program, and yes it’s giving “group project but make it benchmarks.” 💅

💖 NAME 💖

x11perfcomp — X11 server performance comparison program.

🧾 SYNTAX 🧾

x11perfcomp [ -r | -ro ] [ -l label_file ] files

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so x11perfcomp merges the output of several x11perf(1) runs into a nice tabular format. It takes the results in each file, fills in any missing test results if necessary, and for each test shows the objects/second rate of each server. If you invoke it with the -r or -ro options, it shows the relative performance of each server to the first server. periodt. 🔥

Normally, x11perfcomp uses the first file specified to determine which specific tests it should report on. Some (non-DEC :) servers may fail to perform all tests. When that happens, x11perfcomp automatically substitutes in a rate of 0.0 objects/second. Since the first file determines which tests to report on, that first file must contain a superset of the tests reported in the other files, else x11perfcomp will fail. 😭

🚨 bestie, this is the part where the first file has to be a superset of the tests reported in the other files. If it isn’t, x11perfcomp will fail. no cap.

You can provide an explicit list of tests to report on by using the -l switch to specify a file of labels. You can create a label file by using the -label option in x11perf. iykyk. 🌸

✨ OPTIONS ✨

x11perfcomp accepts the options listed below, bestie:

• -r — specifies that the output should also include relative server performance.
• -ro — specifies that the output should include only relative server performance.
• -l label_file — specifies a label file to use.

🎀 X DEFAULTS 🎀

There are no X defaults used by this program. zero. none. the void. 💀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• X(7)
• x11perf(1)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Mark Moraes wrote the original scripts to compare servers. Joel McCormack just munged them together a bit. iconic collaboration behavior, honestly. 🫶

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💜 signed off with X Version 11 and x11perf 1.7.0 energy — the footer didn’t list a date, so we are not inventing one, bestie. 🎀