Registered: Oct 1999
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 15

Downloaded Benchamark tonight and checked out how fast my VDX is ... It came out at 158% (compared to Palm V's 100%)!

Can that be correct?


... download Benchmark here for free: http://www.palmgear.com/software/sh...amp;prodID=2864

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 200

Visor uses 'CruiseControl', you can install it in you Palm V and use it with the same result.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Pittsford,NY,USA
Posts: 223

That's correct ... Handspring optimized performance by removing some unnecessary wait states. Supposedly these were passed on to Palm and they have done the same optimizations in PalmOS 3.3. (Unconfirmed)


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-Eric
VisorCentral Staff

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
Posts: 1361

There has been no evidence that Handspring uses overclocking to speed up the Visor -- they optimized the code.

I ran Benchmark before and after I upgraded my Palm III to OS 3.3, and both have it at 91%. I haven't seen the numbers yet on a Palm Vx, which uses a 20MHz processor.

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James Hromadka
VisorCentral.com
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Registered: Sep 1999
Location:
Posts: 61

I am under the impression that OverClocking and removing or reducing the wait states are two different things.

My understanding is the losing or reducing wait states (i.e. "optimizing the code") make the 16 mHz Dragonball go faster - 150% vs. the regular 100%. While over clocking can move the mHz of the processor up to 27 or 29 mHz with Afterburner (which doesn't currently work with OS 3.3).

I could be wrong about all of this but this is the way I understand it.

jonpod

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 200

I upgraded my IIIx a few days ago to 3.3. I can't tell the difference. But then I never had a speed problem before....

I believe as long as you use the normal applications it's fast eneugh.

Where do you need the speed?

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: chicago,illinois,usa
Posts: 9

i noticed a big difference from OS 3.0-3.3 on my palm iii. I have a lot of hacks running in the background and my finance database took forever to load. My girlfriend thinks that using my Palm III is just as bad as using some Windows CE machines because it takes a while to do anything on it (1-2 extra seconds)

I can tell the performance difference in os 3.3, and afterburner 2.0 works with it also, but ecohack does not.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 74

I have gotten really inconsistent results from that benchmark program when removing wait states using Afterburner 2.2. Sometimes my old IIIx would come up faster than everything, then I would go into Afterburner, speed up the processor and my benchmark would go down. Never able to recreate the same results consistently when changing wait states and processor speed.