On 19-01-2017, at 3:21 PM, Ben Coman btc@openinworld.com wrote:
And imagine where we will be in another 10 years.
Well it should be interesting. I suspect we’re near the end of single core performance increases of any dramatic degree. So we should be thinking of ways to make good use of many-core systems for Squeak.
Note that on a good modern x86 desktop you can anticipate something like 3B bytecodes/sec and 200M sends/sec - and at that level it probably makes the benchmark even less meaningful.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim No, I don't explode cats. It's way too difficult to coax them into the microwave