I am not sure what you mean with vm benchmarks, but in almost all the tools I am contributing come with some benchmarks (spy, Mondrian, I wrote some benchmarks for Glamour as well). Naturally, those are macro benchmarks, which is probably what matter the most.
Cheers, Alexandre Le 11 mars 2011 à 10:55, Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]> a écrit : > 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 > > > > > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 2974 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > > >
