Help subjectively testing performance improvement?

[adzm]

from beta forum:

My ping times are being very erratic; anyone want to help subjectively test something? I'm trying to test this improvement to the responsiveness of the screen updates sent to the VNC viewer. You can enable it after connecting in the options dialog: the 'Preemptive Updates' checkbox, or via '/preemptiveupdates' on the command line.

High-latency or low-bandwidth connections, especially those going through a repeater or vnc proxy server, are the ones most likely to notice a difference.

I've had trouble figuring out ways to objectively time this without investing a good amount of time, but I am afraid the improvements I have personally noticed are biased. But if changes are noticable, then I'll know it deserves to be researched further.

I'd rather not explain it yet for fear of influencing things. But I will regardless afterwards.

Note: this came to me in a dream last night... seriously. Have not had a chance to test the x64 version but it should behave the same.

Also I did make a minor change to the clipboard code that might resolve a strange bug regarding virtual machines or RDP or other apps getting in a loop of massive clipboard change notifications that can cause a hang, crash, or just eat up your bandwidth.

Based off of svn head:

32-bit / x86
http://adamwalling.com/vncviewertest/vncviewer.exe

64-bit / x64
http://adamwalling.com/vncviewertest/vncviewer_64.exe