Speedy for Palm OS

About Speedy

Speedy is the award winning benchmark utility for PalmOS based devices (on October 26th 2005, Speedy was listed number 21 in TrackerDog's all time Top 100 Popular Palm Softwares).

Speedy performs three resource taking routines to measure the real CPU speed of your device and benchmark it with other PalmOS based devices.

Speedy is especially useful in different cases :
- to check that your PalmOS based device behaves and performs like it should;
- to see the impact of CPU down/over-clocking upon your device''s performance;
- to see how a specific software or hardware modifies your device's performance;
- to really compare different devices and benchmark them.

Your device's performance is ranked on several charts against baseline measurements of other common PalmOS compatible devices.
Speedy reports both a CPU frequency and a relative index (100% is for the Palm Vx at 20 MHz).


Updates Description

6.4 (09/05/07)
- added full details of benchmark value for the Handpsring Visor Neo
- added one-handed navigation feature
- fixed default button in the Detail Device and the Advertisement screens
- added a new paragraph in the user manual, about how listening to music running in the background affects the device's performance and how Speedy helps evaluating it

6.3 (12/02/06)
- added benchmark values for the Palm Treo 680 device

6.2 (09/18/06)
- added benchmark values for the Palm Treo 700p and Aceeca Meazura devices

6.1 (11/14/05)
- fixed a bug from version 6.0 that would cause a very bad crash in some rare cases ; upgrading from version 6.0 is highly recommended
- added high resolution icons in the Detail Device screen
- a few other minor cosmetic changes in the About Box

6.0 (10/26/05)
- added benchmark values for Palm IIIe, Palm VIIx, Palm TX, Palm Z22 and GSL Xplore M68
- upgraded processor information for GSL Xplore M28 and Hunetec H500, although results for these devices are still badly missing in Speedy's database...
- massive review of the source code, which was quite required after more than 4 years of patching Speedy upon each new version
- the application's Saved Preferences were also "revamped", Speedy will from now on remember your selection of devices and your [last] and [saved] results when upgrading
- when the benchmark would run during 15 seconds for a 20 MHz DragonBall device, it runs in less than one second for the new high speed ARM devices. As a consequence, accuracy was a little bit depreciated with the new devices => now the Speedy benchmark is run 5 times for ARM devices, and the average benchmark value is calculated in order to increase results accuracy (of about 0.01 sec)
- moved the "Save [last]" and "Save [now]" menu items from the Options menu to the Application menu
- the "Save [last]" and "Save [now]" menu items now correctly update the benchmark graph screen with the newly [saved] values
- a few minor cosmetic changes (a space character was inserted between "Speedy" and the version number in the title when saving results to memo, the "Please wait..." initial message was centered vertically)
- the "Please wait..." initial message is now provided with a progress bar
- added an advertisement screen for my other applications, to replace the standard "Plase wait..." initial message ;-) But, if you find it "boring", there is a user friendly option to remove it... :-)
- finally took the time to integrate the nice high resolution icon that Schtunks had designed especially for Speedy, well just 2 years ago!
- registered the CreatorIDs for the SCells, SMatches and SNumerus sample timing applications; I had to change SCells' CreatorID to LDsC because the older one used was already reserved by another application
- last but not least, upgraded the documentation (Speedy.PDF file) which had not evolved in the last 2 years