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 really compare different devices and benchmark them.

Speedy reports both a CPU frequency and a relative index (100% is for the Palm Vx at 20 MHz).

Description:
v6.1 (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

• 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

• Added benchmark values for Palm LifeDrive and Garmin iQue 3200
• Source code optimization (~2% decrease of the program size) and slightly faster initial loading

• Added benchmark values for Palm Tungsten E2 and Tapwave Zodiac 2
• Changed benchmark values for Palm Tungsten E because they were not correct (overestimated)
• Added bookmarks in the user manual (PDF file) for easier browsing through the documentation

• Added a new {No device} selection to allow choosing less than 5 reference devices to display and compare your device with
• Speedy now unactivates pen interactions when running the benchmark routines so as not to distort benchmark results (available for devices with Palm OS < 5 only, as PACE for Palm OS 5 considers the "system use only" related API calls as NOPS, i.e. No OPerationS)
• Added benchmark values for Fossil Wrist PDA, Sony CliĆ© N760C, Palm VII (1st generation, simple DragonBall processor) and AlphaSmart Dana Wireless, and partial benchmark information for IBM Workpad (10u), IBM Workpad (20X), IBM Workpad (40U), IBM Workpad 2 (22X), IBM Workpad 2 (30X), IBM Workpad c3, IBM Workpad c500 and IBM Workpad c505
• In a search to be exhaustive, I added some 50 devices to Speedy's database, even if most of the new devices come with no benchmark data so far
• Given that there are now some 126 devices in Speedy's database, I upgraded the source code to sort and list all devices automatically and, therefore, ease my work for future upgrades!
• Speedy now reports the number of devices with full benchmark data, partial benchmark data or missing benchmark information
• Even though so few people donated for Speedy so far (and I think that this is a pity given the number of downloads and of people using it... see the Donate paragraph in the readme file), I updated the donation URL

• Added benchmark values for Palm IIIxe, Handspring Treo 180, Handspring Visor Platinum, PalmOne Treo 650 and PalmOne Tungsten T5

• Split all ARM devices by processor model (Texas Instrument OMAP, Intel XScale, Motorala i.MX1/i.MXL and Sony CDX2230GA). Upgraded the Devices & Color Picker options accordingly, and also added processor type vizualisation in the devices' details window
• Moved the devices database from the internal code to dedicated resources. As a result the program size became 20% smaller for the same number of devices (54 in version 3.5), and program size remained the same (when compared to version 3.5) even with all additional features of this new version 4.0
• Added benchmark values for Sony CliĆ© TJ35 and for Samsung SGH-i530
• Added devices with partial or empty information for the following 16 devices: GSpda Xplore G18, GSpda Xplore G88, HandEra TRGPro, Handspring Treo 180, Handspring Treo 180G, Handspring Visor Neo, Handspring Visor Platinum, Handspring Visor Pro, Palm i705, Palm IIIe, Palm IIIxe, Samsung SGH-i505, Samsung SPH-i500, Sony CliĆ© N760C, Sony CliĆ© NR70 and Sony CliĆ© S360. These devices are marked with a [*] or [-] sign in Speedy's database depending on whether they are with partial or no results. The devices' details window was upgraded to reflect this partial knowledge
• The devices' details window was fully redesigned to look nicer and with additional information (processor)
• Added a button to switch automatically from Speedy to some processors overclocking software (this is very convenient when you want to validate down/over-clocking settings). These software are: FastCPU - for DragonBall overclocking, Lightspeed - for ARM overclocking, PXA Clocker - for ARM overclocking, SysInfo - for DragonBall overclocking