On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 21:07 -0400, Austin Hastings wrote: > 0. Is there a standard set of performance/timing tests? If not, can we > make one? > > In particular, > > 0a. How long does it take to initialize parrot and execute a single > "HALT" instruction? > > 0b. How long does it take to perform opcode O, 10**X-sub-O times, for > some appropriate value of X-sub-O, for each O? > > 0c. How long does it take to run a standard program, with functions and > data and objects and file i/o, Y times? > > 0d. How long does it take to run (some troublesome subsystem 'S') > Z-sub-S times?
I've thought about doing something similar in the past, but I was not yet convinced that the benefit would be worth the time spent. Seeing that someone else independently came up with the same idea pushes me a little further towards JFDI. Anyone else care to weigh in? -'f _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
