This is a benchmark test cd, to get performance data for a specific computer setup. Please contribute by posting a followup with the results from the 'real' column.
It's a complete 227 MB zipped .iso file that needs to be written to a cd and booted. Login as toor, type bench.sh, type the data in a followup to this posting. A complete collection of testdata can be found in the '/tmp/ sHHMMSS.tbz' file. And it can be copied by running 'mnt_usb.pl && cp - p /tmp/s??????.tbz /mountpount/usb0 && umount /mountpoint/usb0' or you can simple type down the numbers for 'real' and type them here. If you have any security concerns, please feel free to browse the cd volume.
Link to the bootcd:
I hope this will shed some better light as to which computer configurations that will perform better or worse for fpga synhtesis- place-route process. A Pentium-III 800 MHz takes approx 25m on the fpga test. Intel core2 ~300s, AMD64 ~500s (free from memory). Please use exact numbers.