by Jim Watters
While bench testing does not necessarily determine the best Mac emulator for your needs, it does give you an indication of the speed to expect from whatever Mac emulator you are thinking about using. It is a hobby of mine to go through the long exhaustive process of running bench tests on the emulators in order to show the progress being made by the developers creating these wonderful programs.
I hope you enjoy seeing the test results I've posted here and you gain some knowledge of how the Mac emulator you are using fares in speed compared to the others. Keep in mind that speed isn't everything - features and stability are a big plus too. But how quick the emulator completes a task is one of the important things to consider. Feel free to run any of the tests yourself - I chose shareware/freeware to run all the tests so that others could duplicate my results.
Updated 8/4/00