The OpenGL port of the Picture-Level Benchmark (PLB), first demonstrated publicly at SIGGRAPH '96, is expected to be ready for reporting of performance numbers before the end of this year. Once the port is approved by project group members, results will appear in this publication and the port will be available for downloading.

Currently, the PLB is ported to PHIGS, PEXlib and vendors' proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs). Its availability under OpenGL will make the PLB accessible to a wider range of graphics users and vendors.

While acknowledging that all benchmarks are subject to biases, Bill Licea-Kane, one of the original developers of the OpenGL port, says that the port will "be subject to fewer biases than so-called 'PHIGS-like' graphics libraries to which the PLB is already ported."

With the addition of the OpenGL port, the PLB will be available as a graphics performance measurement tool across every major API.