I remember (a long time ago) digging around for a computer to test one of the large commercial Smalltalks - VA IIRC. It did not go well, and in the process of checking on how the machine performed otherwise, I ran something out of the then-current M$ Office and quickly discovered that the particular machine was not up to my needs. The thing just crawled, and the interesting part was watching it draw, several times(!!), one of the common dialogs. It was quite a display of inefficiency, and was repeated with every user interaction on that dialot. The point being that faster machines were able to overpower the bad code, which is pretty much what has kept MS in business.
Byte codes and message sends are important, but so is efficiency and feedback to the user. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mariano Martinez Peck Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Making some progress, and a few observations I think it has no sense to test with several images. Look adrian comment "This basically measures how many bytecodes and messages the VM can execute per second." So, I guess it is a benchmark for VM + hardware. I don't think the image can influence much here. Am I correct? best, Mariano On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Here are my numbers. Computer: Thinkpad T61,Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 @ 2GHz, 2GB RAM) OS: Windows XP SP3 Seaside 2.8.3 One Click Image: '157248157 bytecodes/sec; 4708854 sends/sec' Seaside 2.8.4 One Click Image: '158907510 bytecodes/sec; 4592283 sends/sec' pharo0.1-10373web09.07.2: '156479217 bytecodes/sec; 4413998 sends/sec' Regards, Esteban A. Maringolo _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
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