OK, thanks everybody for the replies, seems like I was looking at 3 basically identical VM's with Cog.
I went back to an older installation (on a RPi2), that performed way worse (being a stack interpreter): volumio@audio359:~/pharo$ ./bin/PharoS --version 3.9-7 #1 Thu Mar 26 14:59:31 CET 2015 gcc 4.6.3 [Production ITHB VM] StackInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-jeanbaptistearnaud.828 uuid: ba8d2ed6-70b9-4309-8bf0-9eda9c0d1c2d Mar 26 2015 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git Commit: 32d18ba0f2db9bee7f3bdbf16bdb24fe4801cfc5 Date: 2015-03-24 11:08:14 +0100 By: Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> Jenkins build #126 Linux pharo-contribution-raspberrypi-linux 3.2.0-58-generic #88-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 3 17:37:58 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux plugin path: /home/volumio/pharo/bin/ [default: /home/volumio/pharo/bin/] volumio@audio359:~/pharo$ ./bin/PharoS --nodisplay mpdc.image printVersion [version] 4.0 #40624 volumio@audio359:~/pharo$ ./bin/PharoS --nodisplay mpdc.image eval '1 tinyBenchmarks' '7866273 bytecodes/sec; 615105 sends/sec' > On 19 Oct 2016, at 17:24, Henrik Johansen <henrik.s.johan...@veloxit.no> > wrote: > > >> On 18 Oct 2016, at 11:11 , Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: >> >> >> Is there still a stack VM (PharoS for ARM, 5.0) ? > > I downloaded the one you linked > (http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharoS/raspbian/latest.zip), but it was a pre-spur > VM, so I had to use 50496 from the "preSpur" folder. > It didn't recognize the -nodisplay parameter, so I had to open image normally > to do tinyBenchmarks. > Performance was fairly bad compared to Cog Spur (34M bytecodes, 2M sends), > and in general not suitable for live editing of a Pharo image at all (8 > seconds to open a browser, etc), so if a newer does not exist, I doubt it > makes sense to spend effort creating one that reads Spur images other than as > an intellectual exercize with a Cog VM available. > > Cheers, > Henry > > Version infos of vms I've ran, in order of age: > > http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3427/cogspurlinuxhtARM-15.33.3427.tgz > : > > ./phcogspurlinuxhtRPi/pharo -version > 5.0-201610142319 Sat Oct 15 02:45:47 UTC 2016 gcc 4.9.2 [Production Spur VM] > CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.1959 uuid: > 2784931a-d7ba-431a-be8c-ec79b1e55684 Oct 15 2016 > StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.1959 uuid: > 2784931a-d7ba-431a-be8c-ec79b1e55684 Oct 15 2016 > VM: 201610142319 https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git $ > Date: Sat Oct 15 00:19:53 2016 +0100 $ > Plugins: 201610142319 https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git $ > Linux testing-gce-874b9d32-9a0b-447e-98d4-15ee5b4feaec 4.4.0-42-generic > #62~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 23:15:48 UTC 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux > plugin path: ./phcogspurlinuxhtRPi/lib/pharo/5.0-201610142319 [default: > /home/veloxit/phcogspurlinuxhtRPi/lib/pharo/5.0-201610142319/] > > Included by nuscratch: > > squeak -version > 5.0-201608180858 Mon Aug 22 18:41:57 PDT 2016 gcc 4.9.2 [Production Spur VM] > CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-cb.1919 uuid: > 00a8dd2a-bc8d-4552-b400-be781c8aabec Aug 22 2016 > StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-cb.1919 uuid: > 00a8dd2a-bc8d-4552-b400-be781c8aabec Aug 22 2016 > VM: 201608180858 tim@Diziet.local:Documents/Squeak/Rasbian-VM/vm $ Date: Thu > Aug 18 10:58:48 2016 +0200 $ > Plugins: 201608180858 tim@Diziet.local:Documents/Squeak/Rasbian-VM/vm $ > Linux Pi-3B-1 4.4.9-v7+ #884 SMP Fri May 6 17:28:59 BST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux > plugin path: /usr/lib/squeak/5.0-201608180858 [default: > /usr/lib/squeak/5.0-201608180858/] > > http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharoS/raspbian/latest.zip : > > ./PharoS/PharoS --version > 3.9-7 #1 Thu Apr 9 14:59:10 CEST 2015 gcc 4.6.3 [Production ITHB VM] > StackInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-jeanbaptistearnaud.828 uuid: > ba8d2ed6-70b9-4309-8bf0-9eda9c0d1c2d Apr 9 2015 > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git Commit: > 32d18ba0f2db9bee7f3bdbf16bdb24fe4801cfc5 Date: 2015-03-24 11:08:14 +0100 By: > Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> Jenkins build #128 > Linux pharo-contribution-raspberrypi-linux 3.2.0-58-generic #88-Ubuntu SMP > Tue Dec 3 17:37:58 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > plugin path: /home/veloxit/PharoS/ [default: /home/veloxit/PharoS/] > > squeak.old (aka squeak , without nuscratch installed) (shell script doesn't > forward to actual vm if not provided image path, hence the absolute): > > /usr/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2614/squeakvm -version > 4.10.2-2614 #1 XShm Sat Nov 8 01:32:22 UTC 2014 /usr/bin/cc > Linux bm-wb-01 3.16-trunk-armmp #1 SMP Debian 3.16-1~exp1 (2014-08-09) armv7l > GNU/Linux > plugin path: /usr/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2614/ [default: > /usr/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2614/] >
