[Newbies] Speed

[John Worden]

Thanks Herbert for tip on timing.

For interest I tried.  The results were.

Squeak 5600 - 5800 milliseconds
Pharo 5400 - 5500 milliseconds
Cuis 200 - 500 milliseconds

So there was a factor of 10 in it which I why I noticed I guess.


2009/11/12 Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net>

> Hi John,
>
> JW> Absolute beginner playing with smalltalk.  I have a simple
> JW> program that opens a number of text files, plays with data closes
> JW> files and gives a count of things in the files. (Its actually my
> JW> Squeak version of the Cincom VW Tutorial).  I have run it on
> JW> Squeak, Pharo and Cuis images. What suprised me was the difference
> JW> in speeds.  I haven't done tried to time it (I should do that or
>
> in case you don't know how:
> Time millisecondsToRun: [your code goes here]
> returns what it says.
>
> JW> at least work out how to) but Squeak and Pharo take about the same
> JW> time whereas Cuis is significantly quicker. I know its a cut down
> JW> image but the difference is remarkable.  Is this to be expected?
>
> If you talk about files, a significant part of the time might be spent
> in the OS which depends on cacheing.
>
> So unless there is significant processing, file access might dominate
> (and invalidate) the measured times.
>
> Cuis has removed and cleaned up things which tends to speed things up
> but usually not to a noticeable degree. Even if you hit a
> significantly sped up method, such results should not be generalized.
>
> Cuis is not advertised for higher speed but for cleaner code, less
> bulk and better looks. IMHO that is.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Herbert
>
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