This benchmark is particularly effective as it can use more than one size of routing table. Table lookups and interpolation are frequently implemented algorithms used in automotive and industrial control applications. A processor that implemented them most efficiently would certainly be well suited for controlling a modern engine or drive train. Bitmap rotation, another office automation benchmark, is also a universal function implemented by almost any application that has a rasterized display or printing engine. Designers of these cost sensitive products can now directly measure how will a processor will handle printing and rasterizing tasks allowing them to bring products to market more quickly.
Digital cameras are one area of consumer electronics that are particularly difficult to design.
Processors for these devices must be physical small, very low power, and have enough horsepower to quickly compress and decompress JPEG images. This is why the consumer team, chaired by Randy Henderson of IBM, chose to implement benchmarks that directly measure how well a processor handles JPEG compression and decompression. However, they do cover a very wide range and can easily be applied to other related applications. The JPEG compression and decompression benchmarks can be applied to any device which supports a web browser. The routing and other networking benchmarks will provide a good indication of how a processor and system will handle general packet-based processing.