That's what I proposed above, run my mandelbrodt basic program for an hour in loop and count the loops. But such a simple benchmark will not use all...
We will find many many many reasons, like presence and size ofL1,L2, L3 cache, outoforder execution, pipelines, simd (mmx, sse, 3dnow, ...), external...
i think my basic program is more understandable. And yes, there are differences in the run time from basic interpreter to basic interpreter. But the...
Solder out the diodes on one side and then you can measure them, also the zener diodes should measure like that if the voltage of your device is low...