Comment by bluedino
2 months ago
I agree that these are very simple cases, and it's like benchmarking compiliation or execution of helloworld.cpp
It would be interesting to see something like:
- cold boot
- load Windows
- load Office
- open a 200 page document
- create pdf from said document
- open 5000 row spreadsheet
- do a mail merge
- open 150,000 record database
- generate some goofy report
Do people still do mail merge? Not sure.
Just FWIW, that is what PC Pro magazine's benchmark suite did in the early 1990s.
It ran (5-10x) a set of scripted operations in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, PhotoShop, and WinZip, on large files, and that was the basis of of the benchmark score.
I ported the benchmark suite from 16-bit Windows to 32-bit Windows.