does anyone have news regarding this topic?  we VERY welcome people helping
with benchmarks.
please feel free to improve http://www.squeaksource.com/PharoBenchmarks



On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Stefan Marr <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> On 04 Jan 2011, at 23:40, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Stefan Marr <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Igor:
> >
> > On 04 Jan 2011, at 22:40, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> >
> > > Okay, how about creating a separate
> > > VMBenchmarks repository
> > > and putting VMBenchmarks package there?
> >
> > Sure, sounds good. There are also the Systems benchmarks at
> http://www.squeaksource.com/PharoBenchmarks.
> >
> >
> > So, at least, I was able to run all benchmarks :)
> >
> > However, it still needs cleaning, improvement, testing, blah.  But it is
> a good start point I think.
>
> Well, I am not to sure about the general value of those benchmarks.
> There are many microbenchmarks which do not tell you a lot. All those test*
> things.
> And well, their value for testing is also questionable. They only can help
> you to identify where it goes *boom* and crashes the VM, but they do not
> actually assert for anything.
>
> Also not sure what the value of Slopstone and Smopstone (names from the top
> of my head might be slightly different) is nowadays.
>
> The compiler benchmark is a reasonable application benchmark.
> Would be good to have a few others in that collection, too.
>
> Best regards
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
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