And I’l just add slack-jawed-in-amazement observation from clicking on the tinyBenchmarks line of the SystemReporter that my very ordinary iMac reports just under a BILLION bytecodes/sec and 62 freakin’million sends/sec.
I remember Eliot & I laughing uproariously when my ARM3 prototype machine hit approx 300,000 in 1988. I don’t think anybody really had a clue how much faster things could get.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful random insult:- Thinks E=MC^2 is a rap star.