FrameworkLatencyTester

Work in progress!

This Repository contains:

• a program to measure the latency of graphics frameworks (latency_tester)
• a program that automatically triggers input events (click_simulator)
• several test programs implemented with different frameworks (test_programs)
• measurement data (data)

Usage

• make sure to start the program on the primary display!
• build everything with make in the root directory
• run ./start_measurement.sh PROGRAM_NAME NUM_ITERATIONS SUBDIRECTORY
  • PROGRAM_NAME is the name of the program under test and should be equal to a subdirectory in test_programs. It is also the name of the log file that will be created.
  • NUM_ITERATIONS is the number of measurement iterations you want to make
  • SUBDIRECTORY is the name of a subdirectory in data which will be created and where the log file will be stored
• in start_measurement.sh, you can also adjust delay times of the click simulator

Framework List

This list is not complete.

Low Level

• OpenGL
• Vulkan

GUI Frameworks

• Java Swing
• Qt
• PyQt
• Tkinter
• GTK
• Cairo

2D Frameworks

• SDL
• SDL2
• pygame
• Pillow
• OpenCV

Game Engines

• Unity
• Unreal Engine
• Irrlicht
• OGRE
• Panda3D

Web

• WebGL
• HTML5 Canvas
• plain JavaScript

Required Packages

sudo apt install freeglut3-dev
sudo apt install libglew-dev
sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt install libcairo2-dev
sudo apt install default-jre default-jdk
sudo apt install libfltk1.3-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev
sudo apt install liballegro5-dev

pip3 install wxPython
pip3 install pyqt5
pip3 install pyqt6
pip3 install pygame