To celebrate passing 300 downloads, here is the latest OS scorecard for Headline Benchmark downloads:
Windows-64: 179
Windows-32: 48
Linux-64: 33
Linux-32: 15
CLI: 21 (CPU-only pure Java version)
Android: 49 (but out of 49 downloads, only 8 have kept it installed)
Who woulda thunk it…? Android 5 does give a huge speed boost to Java apps. No effect on OpenGL calls though. This result is a friend’s nexus 4 - green bars are Android 5 and grey bars are Android 4.4.
I take care to warm up my CPU tests, so I thought ART wasn’t going to make a big difference.
I find this interesting as well: How much has ART improved from the developer preview in 4.4 to the final version in 5.0? This compares “your” 5.0 results with my 4.4 with ART:
I have a nasty feeling about this. I don’t trust a 3x improvement in some cases. Still, Google claimed similar boosts in their promo slides:
From http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/07/07/android-art-vs-dalvik/.
EDIT: On all three results posted (EgonOlsen’s and mine) I’m proud of the consistency I get from the GPU tests - almost exactly the same numbers each time even though the Java (CPU) side is wildly differing between the runs.
Hey… I’ve passed 300 downloads for the desktop version:
Windows-64: 202 downloads
Windows-32: 53 downloads
Linux-64: 37 downloads (it’s catching up on Win-32!)
Linux-32: 17 downloads
I’m up to 160+ downloads for the android version 