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## Name

xieperf - XIE server extension test and demo program

## Syntax

xieperf [-option ...]

## Description

The xieperf program is based upon R5 x11perf(1) , and while not entirely comprehensive in its coverage of the XIE protocol (see BUGS, below), it is intended to be useful in the evaluation of XIE implementations in the areas of protocol adherance and performance. The xieperf program includes tests which execute each of the protocol requests and photoflo elements specified by revision 5.0 of the XIE protocol. In addition, xieperf provides a set of tests which can be used to validate the detection and transmission of XIE protocol request errors, such as FloMatch, FloValue, and so forth. Finally, xieperf provides a customizable demonstration program for XIE.

A test is made up of three components executed in sequence - an initialization function, a test function, and an end function. The initialization function is responsible for allocating and populating test resources, such as photomaps and LUTs, and for creating a stored photoflo which will be executed by the test function. The test function, in most cases, simply executes the stored photoflo for a specified number of repetitions. The end function, which is called following the test function, is used primarily to destroy any non-cachable server resources used by the test, and to free any memory which was dynamically allocated by the client. Some tests, such as -modify1, -await, -abort, and -redefine, perform additional steps within the test function inner loop, as required by the element being tested, or in an attempt to make the test more visually appealing.

Evaluating the performance of individual XIE elements is not as simple as measuring Core X drawing times. The XIE protocol requires elements to be embedded within photoflos in order to be exercised, and the minimum possible photoflo size is two. This implies that it is impossible to measure performance of a single element in isolation - the time it takes to run the flo depends on what other elements exist in the flo. Extrapolating performance of a single elment (or technique) in a flo must be done carefully, on a case-by-case basis, since in general measured element performance depends on input image size, data type, and other factors, all of which can be influenced by upstream flo elements. Note further that the number and type of elements in a flo can be influenced by the visuals available on the display, so even flo-flo comparisons on machines with different visuals must be done with caution.

Many test labels contain an abbreviated pipeline description. For instance. IP/IL/P/ED indicates ImportPhotomap, ImportLUT, Point, and ExportDrawable. Pipelines ending in ED (ExportDrawable) often include hidden elements such as BandExtract, ConvertToIndex, Dither, or Point to match the flo output to the screen visual. Pipelines ending in EP (ExportPhotomap) will result in a blank window.

xieperf is compatible with x11perfcomp(1) , which is used to compare the outputs of different xieperf and x11perf runs in a nice, tabular format. In xieperf you will need to use the -labels option (see OPTIONS, below), and provide the resulting labels file to x11perfcomp(1) to obtain correct output. See the x11perfcomp(1) man pages for more details on this.

## Options

xieperf accepts the options listed below:

-display host:dpy
  Specifies which display to use.
-images <path>
  Normally, xieperf references image files located in the directory ``images'', which xieperf assumes is located in your current directory. If the ``images'' directory is not in your current directory, or the file has been renamed, use this option to specify its location.
-timeout <s>
  Some tests require the reception of an event such as FloNotify to continue, and may cause xieperf to hang should these events not be received. This option allows the user to specify a timeout value which, if exceeded, will cause xieperf to give up waiting for an event, and continue on with the next test in sequence. Should an event timeout, a warning message will be printed to stderr. The default timeout value is 60 seconds.
-sync
  Runs the tests in synchronous mode.
-script <file>
  Using this option gives the user the ability to run a subset of the available tests and control the number of times the tests are executed on an individual basis. This is thought to be especially useful for those running xieperf for demonstration purposes. Using this option causes xieperf to read commands specified in a script file, or from stdin if <file> is ``-''. Tests are specified by newline-terminated input lines of the form "command [-reps n ] [ -repeat m ]". Characters following and including "#" are treated as comments. See the -mkscript option.
-repeat <n>
  Repeats each test n times (by default each test is run 2 times). This option may be used in script files also, in which case the script file -repeat overrides the command line option.
-time <s>
  Specifies how long in seconds each test should be run (default 5 seconds).
-depth <depth>
  Use a visual with <depth> planes per pixel (default is the default visual).
-GrayScale
  Use a GrayScale visual (default is the default visual).
-PseudoColor
  Use a PseudoColor visual (default is the default visual).
-StaticGray
  Use a StaticGray visual (default is the default visual).
-StaticColor
  Use a StaticColor visual (default is the default visual).
-TrueColor
  Use a TrueColor visual (default is the default visual).
-DirectColor
  Use a DirectColor visual (default is the default visual).
-WMSafe
  If xieperf must be run in a window manager environment, use this flag to make xieperf aware of this. If specified, xieperf will create a window, identical to the size of the root window, and all further windows created by xieperf will be transient popup children of this window. If this flag is omitted, xieperf will set the override_redirect attribute of all windows to ``True'' and will also do evil things such as calling XInstallColormap. Using this option will cause the window manager to (hopefully) obey window geometry hints specified by xieperf
-showtechs
  Display a comprehensive list of techniques, by category, indicating which of the techniques are supported by the XIE server.
-showlabels
  Print test label to screen prior to calling any of the test code. This allows the user to know which test is executing in case the test hangs for some reason.
-showevents
  Be verbose when running event and error tests. Also, can be used to catch and display information on any signals received during execution of xieperf that the error events received by xieperf are valid the first time the tests are executed on a new platform.
-events
  Run tests which test for event generation.
-errors
  Run tests which test for error event generation.
-loCal
  Skip test calibration. This may be used when running xieperf in situations where execution timing is not important. Execution times will not be reported by xieperf when this option is enabled. The inner loop repeat count, additionally, is set to a value of 5 (but can be overridden by the -reps option).
-all
  Runs all tests. This may take a while, depending on the speed of your machine, and its floating point capabilities. This option is ignored if a script file is used.
-tests
  Generate a list of the available tests for the xieperf program. In x11perf , this list is normally displayed in the usage statement. It was yanked from the usage of xieperf because it was too lengthy.
-mkscript
  Generate a script file suitable for use with the script option. If -repeat or -reps are also specified, they will be automatically placed at the end of each command in the script. The script is generated to stderr. See the -script command, above.
-cache <n>
  Most test flos utilize a photomap resource for a source. A photomap cache of up to n entries is controlled by xieperf to avoid having to constantly reload these images during test initialization. The default cache size is 4. If a value less than the default is specified, the cache size will be set to the default.
-labels
  Generates just the descriptive labels for each test specified. Use -all or -range to specify which tests are included. See x11perfcomp(1) for more details.
-DIS
  Pretend we are running xieperf while connected to a DIS-only capable implementation of XIE. This will cause xieperf to execute those tests which only use protocol requests found in the DIS subset of XIE, and bypass those which are not DIS compatible. If xieperf detects a DIS server, it will do this automatically, and this option is ignored. Use -all or -range to specify the initial range of tests.
-range <test1>[,<test2>]
  Runs all the tests starting from the specified name test1 until the name test2, including both the specified tests. Some tests, like the event and error tests, also require the -errors or -events options to specified. This option is ignored if a script it used.
-reps <n>
  Fix the inner loop repetitions to n. This indicates how many time the photoflo will be executed each time the test is run. This option is overridden on a per-test basis if specified in a script. Typically, xieperf determines the ideal number of reps during each test's calibration period.
-ImportObscuredEvent through -ExportAvailable
  Test generation of events. Requires -events flag.
-BadValue through -FloValueError
  Test generation of errors. Requires -errors flag. -ColorList Create and destroy ColorList resource test.
-LUT
  Create and destroy LUT resource test.
-Photomap
  Create and destroy Photomap resource test.
-ROI
  Create and destroy ROI resource test.
-Photospace
  Create and destroy Photospace test.
-Photoflo
  Create and destroy Photoflo test.
-QueryPhotomap
  Query Photomap resource test.
-QueryColorList
  Query ColorList resource test.
-QueryTechniquesDefault through -QueryTechniquesWhiteAdjust
  Query techniques as specified by test name.
-QueryPhotoflo
  Query photoflo test.
-PurgeColorList
  PurgeColorList test.
-Abort
  This tests creates a photoflo which is started and blocks for data provided by PutClientData(). Instead of sending the data, the test uses XieAbort() to stop the photoflo, and then waits for PhotofloDone event to be send by the server. If the test times out waiting for the event, a error message is sent to stderr.
-Await
  This test creates a flo of the form ImportClientLUT -> ExportLUT, and starts the flo executing. xieperf then forks, and the child process streams the LUT data to the flo using PutClientData, while the parent blocks in XieAwait. If the flo successfully finishes, XieAwait will return and the flo state, after query, will indicate that it has completed. If XieAwait does not complete naturally, or after return from XieAwait the flo is still active, an error is reported to stderr. Note, on a really slow machine, it is possible that XieAwait will return before the flo has a chance to finish. In this case, use the -timeout option to increase the timeout for this test.
-importclientlut1
  ImportClientLUT -> ExportLUT test.
-importclientphoto1 through -importclientphoto9
  Flos of the form ImportClientPhoto -> ExportPhotomap using various decode techniques, e.g. G32D, TIFF2, UncompressedTriple, and so forth.
-importclientroi1
  ImportClientROI with 10 rectangles.
-importclientroi2
  ImportClientROI with 100 rectangles.
-encodephoto1 through -encodephoto14
  Flos of the form ImportPhotomap -> ExportPhotomap using various encode techniques, e.g. G32D, TIFF2, UncompressedTriple, and so forth. Original encoding is shown in left window, image after encoding is shown in right window.
-encodeclientphoto1 through -encodeclientphoto11
  Two flos, one of the form ImportPhotomap -> ExportClientPhoto, and the other of the form ImportClientPhoto -> ExportPhotomap, where ExportClientPhoto in the first flo uses various encode techniques, e.g. G32D, TIFF2, UncompressedTriple, and so forth. The image before encoding is displayed in the left window, while the right window shows the image which was encoded in the first flo and read back in the second flo.
-exportclientlut1
  ExportClientLUT test. LUT is displayed in a histogram window.
-exportclientroi1
  ExportClientROI test, 10 ROIs. The ROIs which are sent to the server are represented by the filled rectangles. The ROIs which are received back from the server by the client are drawn as white bordered non-filled rectangles. The resulting output illustrates how the server combined the rectangles sent to it.
-exportclientroi2
  Same as exportclientroi1, except using 100 rectangles.
-exportclienthistogram1 through -exportclienthistogram4
  ExportClientHistogram tests using various images. The histogram is displayed in a window which overlaps the image.
-exportclienthistogramroi1 through -exportclienthistogramroi4
  Same as the ExportClientHistogram test, but using a ROI to identify the area of interest.
-exportclienthistogramcplane1 through -exportclienthistogramcplane4
  Same as the ExportClientHistogram test, but using a Control Plane to identify the area of interest.
-importlut1
  Test ImportLUT element, LUT size is 256.
-importphoto1
  ImportPhotomap -> ExportPhotomap, with source and destination equal.
-importphoto2
  ImportPhotomap -> ExportDrawable, window destination.
-importroi1
  ImportROI -> ExportROI, 10 rectangles, source and destination ROIs equal.
-importroi2
  ImportROI -> ExportROI, 100 rectangles, source and destination ROIs equal.
-importdrawable1
  ImportDrawable -> ExportDrawable, Source is pixmap, destination is window.
-importdrawable2
  ImportDrawable -> ExportDrawable, Source and destination is window.
-importdrawable3
  ImportDrawable -> ExportDrawable, Destination window obscured by source window.
-importdrawable4
  ImportDrawable -> ExportDrawable, Source window obscured by destination window.
-importdrawable5
  ImportDrawablePlane -> ExportDrawablePlane, pixmap, source = destination.
-importdrawable6
  ImportDrawablePlane -> ExportDrawablePlane, window, source = destination.
-importdrawable7
  ImportDrawablePlane -> ExportDrawablePlane, window, source obscures destination.
-importdrawable8
  ImportDrawablePlane -> ExportDrawablePlane, window, destination obscures source.
-constrain1
  Constrain HardClip technique test, drawable destination.
-constrain2
  Constrain ClipScale technique test, drawable destination.
-constrainphoto1
  Constrain HardClip technique test, photomap destination.
-constrainphoto2
  Constrain ClipScale technique test, photomap destination.
-convolve1
  Boxcar 3x3 convolution test. Smoothing or lowpass filter.
-convolve2
  Boxcar 5x5 convolution test. Smoothing or lowpass filter.
-convolve3
  LaPlacian 3x3 convolution test. Edge or highpass filter.
-convolve4
  LaPlacian 5x5 convolution test. Edge or highpass filter.
-convolveroi1
  LaPlacian 3x3 convolution test, with ROI.
-convolveroi2
  LaPlacian 5x5 convolution test, with ROI.
-convolvecplane1
  LaPlacian 3x3 convolution test, with Control Plane.
-convolvecplane2
  LaPlacian 5x5 convolution test, with Control Plane.
-math1 through -mathcplane7
  Various tests which exercise the Math element, some tests using ROIs and control planes.
-arithmeticdyadic1 through -arithmeticdyadic5
  Arithmetic element tests, using photomaps as the operands.
-arithmeticmonadic1 through -arithmeticmonadic9
  Arithmetic element tests, photomap and constant operands.
-arithmeticdyadicroi1 through -arithmeticdyadicroi5
  Arithmetic element tests, using photomaps as the operands, with ROIs.
-arithmeticmonadicroi1 through -arithmeticmonadicroi9
  Arithmetic element tests, photomap and constant operands, with ROIs.
-arithmeticdyadiccplane1 through -arithmeticdyadiccplane5
  Arithmetic element tests, using photomaps as the operands, with Control Planes.
-arithmeticmonadiccplane1 through -arithmeticmonadiccplane9
  Arithmetic element tests, photomap and constant operands, with Control Planes.
-arithmeticfloatdyadic1 though -arithmeticfloatdyadic5
  Arithmetic element tests, using photomaps as the operands, unconstrained.
-arithmeticfloatmonadic1 though -arithmeticfloatmonadic9
  Arithmetic element tests, photomap and constant operands, unconstrained.
-arithmeticroifloatdyadic1 to -arithmeticroifloatdyadic5
  Arithmetic element tests, photomaps as the operands, ROIs, unconstrained.
-arithmeticroifloatmonadic1 to -arithmeticroifloatmonadic9
  Arithmetic element tests, photomap and constant operands, ROIs, unconstrained.
-band1
  BandSelect element test. Image input is triple band. If visual of xieperf window is a color visual, then three BandSelect elements are used to extract the indivudual bands, they are combined once again using BandCombine, and displayed using ConvertToIndex. If the visual is not color, e.g. GrayScale or StaticGray, then the flo simply uses one BandSelect element to extract a single band for display.
-band2
  BandCombine test. Input bands are made of of three separate single band photomaps. These are combined using a BandCombine element, which is followed by a BandExtract and ExportDrawable. CCIR 601-1 coefficients.
-band3
  BandExtract test. Input is a triple band photomap. CCIR 601-1 coefficients. Destination window colormap is gray ramp.
-band4
  BandExtract test. Input is a triple band photomap. CCIR 601-1 coefficients. Destination window colormap is RGB_BEST_MAP standard colormap.
-band5
  BandExtract test. Input is a triple band photomap. CCIR 601-1 coefficients. Destination window colormap is RGB_DEFAULT_MAP standard colormap.
-comparedyadic1 through -comparedyadic6
  Test various Compare operators with dyadic photomap operands.
-comparemonadic1 through -comparemonadic6
  Test various compare operators with photomap, constant operands.
-compareroidyadic1 through -compareroidyadic6
  Test various Compare operators with dyadic photomap operands, using ROIs.
-compareroimonadic1 through -compareroimonadic6
  Test various compare operators with photomap, constant operands, using ROIs.
-comparecplanedyadic1 through -comparecplanedyadic6
  Test various Compare operators with dyadic photomap operands, Control Planes.
-comparecplanemonadic1 through -comparecplanemonadic6
  Test various compare operators with photomap, constant operands, Control Planes.
-matchhistogram1 through -matchhistogram18
  MatchHistogram element tests, using various images and histogram matching techniques.
-matchhistogramroi1 through -matchhistogramroi6
  A selection of MatchHistogram element tests, with ROIs.
-matchhistogramcplane1 through -matchhistogramcplane6
  A selection of MatchHistogram element tests, with Control Planes.
-unconstrain1
  ImportPhotomap, Unconstrain, Constrain(ClipScale), ExportDrawable test.
-pasteup1 through -pasteup2
  PasteUp element tests.
-geometry1 through -geometry14
  Geometry element tests, including rotations, scales, and mirroring. NearestNeighbor technique.
-geometry15 through -geometry28
  Geometry element tests, including rotations, scales, and mirroring. AntiAlias technique.
-geometry29 through -geometry42
  Geometry element tests, including rotations, scales, and mirroring. BilinearInterpolation technique.
-geomg31dscale1 through -geometryfaxradio1
  Tests to exercise the various FAX decoders and the Geometry element.
-dither1
  Dither test, ErrorDiffusion dither technique, ExportDrawable.
-dither2
  Dither test, ErrorDiffusion dither technique, ExportDrawablePlane.
-dither3
  Dither test, Ordered(4) dither technique, ExportDrawable.
-dither4
  Dither test, Ordered(4) dither technique, ExportDrawablePlane.
-dither5
  Dither test, Ordered(8) dither technique, ExportDrawable.
-dither6
  Dither test, Ordered(8) dither technique, ExportDrawablePlane.
-dither7
  Dither test, Default dither technique, ExportDrawable.
-dither8
  Dither test, Default dither technique, ExportDrawablePlane.
-logicalmonadic1 through -logicalmonadic16
  Logical element, photomap and a constant of 0 as operands, various operators.
-logicaldyadic1 through -logicaldyadic16
  Logical element tests, dyadic photomaps as operands, various operators.
-logicalmonadicroi1 through -logicalmonadicroi16
  Logical element, photomap and constant of 0 operands, various operators, ROIs.
-logicaldyadicroi1 through -logicaldyadicroi16
  Logical element, dyadic photomaps as operands, various operators, ROIs.
-logicalmonadiccplane1 through -logicalmonadiccplane16
  Logical element, photomap and constant of 0 operands, various operators, Control Planes.
-logicaldyadiccplane1 through -logicaldyadiccplane16
  Logical element, dyadic photomaps as operands, various operators, Control Planes.
-blend1
  Blend element test. Monadic source, 0.1 source constant. Alpha constant of 0.5.
-blend2
  Blend element test. Dyadic sources. Alpha constant of 0.5.
-blendroi1
  Blend test. Monadic source, 0.1 source constant. Alpha constant of 0.5. ROIs.
-blendroi2
  Blend element test. Dyadic sources. Alpha constant of 0.5. Uses ROIs.
-blendcplane1
  Blend test. Monadic source, 0.1 source constant. Alpha constant of 0.5. Control Plane.
-blendcplane2
  Blend element test. Dyadic sources. Alpha constant of 0.5. Control Plane.
-blendalpha1
  Blend test. Monadic source, 220 source constant. Alpha plane is a photomap.
-blendalpha2
  Blend test. Dyadic sources. Alpha plane is a constant 220.
-blendalpharoi1
  Blend test. Monadic source, 220 source constant. Alpha plane photomap. ROIs.
-blendalpharoi2
  Blend test. Dyadic sources. Alpha plane is a constant 220. ROIs.
-triplepoint1 through -triplepoint2
  Illustrate use of point and Standard colormaps for rendering triple band images.
-funnyencode1 through -funnyencode8
  These tests are design to perform limited exercising of XIE's capability of dealing with various encodings of flo source data. The test init function obtains a photomap using ICP -> EP. A series of independent permanent flo pairs, one of the form IP -> EP, and the other of the basic form IP -> ED, are constructed. The encoding parameters for the ExportPhotomap (EP) element in the first flo are derived from test configuration. The number of flo pairs created is also dependent upon test configuration. The tests can be configured so that the test init function will constrain the input photomap to a specified number of levels, on a per-band basis, so that word-sized and quad-sized pixels are passed through the flos. Some tests below take advantage of this. See tests.c for test configuration, and hints on how to add similar tests.
-point1 through -point3
  Simple Point element tests. Drawable destination. -pointroi1 Simple Point element test which uses ROIs. Drawable destination.
-pointcplane1
  Simple Point element test which uses a Control Plane. Drawable destination.
-pointphoto1
  Simple Point element test. Photomap destination.
-pointroiphoto1
  Simple Point element test which uses a ROIs. Photomap destination.
-pointcplanephoto1
  Simple Point element test which uses a Control Plane. Photomap destination.
-redefine
  Two flographs are created which are the same in structure, expect for the x and y offsets specified for the ExportDrawable flo elements. The test init function creates a photoflo based upon one of the two flographs. The inner loop of the test function uses XieRedefinePhotoflo() to alternate between each of the flographs. Make sure that your ineer loop reps are 2 or greater in order to exercise this test fully (see -reps).
-modify1
  Test XieModifyPhotoflo() by adjust ROI offsets and size.
-modify2
  Test XieModifyPhotoflo() by changing the LUT input to a Point element.
-modify3
  Test XieModifyPhotoflo() by changing ExportDrawable x and y offsets.
-modify4
  This test creates a rather long flo of arithmetic elements, each which does nothing more than add 1 to a small image. The test init function scales the input photomap. The ExportDrawable x and y offset is modified randomly during each iteration of the test function inner loop.
-modify5
  This test creates a rather long flo of arithmetic elements, each which does nothing more than add 1 to a large image. Each rep, the Geometry and ExportDrawable elements at the end of the flo are modifed to crop a small piece of the input into its appropriate place in the larger image.
-rgb1 through -rgb16
  These tests all basically take an UncompressedTriple image as input, send it to ConvertFromRGB which converts the image to some configured colorspace, and then send the converted image on to ConvertToRGB prior to display. The original image is displayed in the lefthand window, and the image which has passed through the flo is shown in the righthand window. The goal of these test is to show that ConvertFromRGB -> ConvertToRGB is lossless.
-converttoindexpixel
  ConvertToIndex test, TripleBand BandByPixel.
-converttoindexplane
  ConvertToIndex test, TripleBand BandByPlane.
-convertfromindex
  The test init function uses a flo containing ConvertToIndex to display an image in the left window. The test function uses this drawable as input to a flo which does ConvertFromIndex -> ConvertToIndex and sends the resulting image to the right window. The result should be lossless.
-complex
  A somewhat large flo which uses control planes, LUTs, Point, PasteUp, Logical, Constrain, Dither, Geometry, MatchHistogram, BandCombine, and BandSelect elements. See the Postscript file ''complex.ps'' for a rendition of the photoflo which is executed.

## X Defaults

There are no X defaults used by this program.

## See Also

X(1) , x11perf(1) , x11perfcomp(1)

## Bugs

There should be a IMAGES environment variable to augment the -images option.

Many tests only scratch the surface of possible test cases. Some of the options available for certain flo elements are either inadequately tested, or ignored altogether. There are insufficent tests for bitonal, large pixel, or triple band tests.

Some of the test names are inconsistently cased, e.g. -Abort and -dither1.

Some tests are hopelessly slow when run against machines with slow FPUs.

Bitonal images are for the most part displayed using the ExportDrawable flo element, however, ExportDrawablePlane would be a better choice.

## Author

Syd Logan, AGE Logic, Inc.

Table of Contents

- Name
- Syntax
- Description
- Options
- X Defaults
- See Also
- Bugs
- Author