On Saturday 21 May 2005 16:49, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> One thing which surprises me about bigFORTH is the inconsistency of
> the results. If I run the very same benchmark a couple of times in
> sequence (always disregarding the very first run) I get quite
> different timings with bigFORTH for each run while the individual
> results (of different runs) on other Forth systems are always close
> toghether.

Take care that you don't have any frequently modified variable close to 
the executed code. "close to" depends on the processor, on a Pentium 4, 
"close to" is within the same kilobyte.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/

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