Hello,

This is the Readme file for my program
called "bandwidth".

This is a benchmark that attempts to measure
memory bandwidth. It's useful because hardware
specifications can at times leave out key facts
about a given piece of hardware. For instance,
two computers may be using 60 nanosecond RAM,
but one of the them may be accessing it very
inefficiently. You could run a non-artificial
benchmark and see that a general performance
number is lower on that machine, which conceals
the cause, or you could run this program, whose
purpose is to help you pinpoint the cause of
a performance problem.

Version 0.12 tests:
	Level 2 cache sequential read
	Level 2 cache sequential write 
	Main memory sequential read speed
	Main memory sequential write speed
	Video memory sequential read speed
	Video memory sequential write speed
	Speed of library routines memset, memcpy, bzero.

This program is provided without any warranty
and AS-IS. See the file COPYING for details.

Zack Smith
fbui@comcast.net
July 2007

