Bernd Paysan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Yes, I do know about that effect. But I can't see how it would explain why in bigFORTH executing the exact same benchmark takes a different amount of time in each run, while it is quite constant in other Forth systems. Why could this be? Robert Epprecht --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
