Is it worth delaying the release?

[Andrew Tween]

<bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Hi Andrew,
> The VM looks fine to me. More detail below.

Good. I'll email it to you.

>
> Andrew Tween writes:
>  > Hi Bryce,
>  > I have built a Win32 vm.
>  > Firstly, I tried building from a Squeak3.8.1-6747-full image, but that gave
MNU
>  > errors when generating :(.
>  > So then I tried again with Squeak3.8-6665-full, and this time it generated,
and
>  > compiled ok.
>  >
>  > 4 tests are failing in the ExuperyStoryTests...
>  >       #testBlockBug3
>
> Relies on a test from the refactoring browser.
>
>  >       #testBlockNonLocalReturnsRecycleContexts
>
> Another refactoring browser test is used here.
>
>  >       #testBlocksAndProcessesBug
>
> This one uses CommandShell which is built on top of OSProcess.
>
>  >       #testDelayWaitStressTest
>
> This test uses GraphViz which is used to lay out graphical inspectors
> for intermediate code. This is also why I've loaded OSProcess and
> CommandShell into my standard image.
>
> I need to figure out a decent way of handling dependencies on other
> packages. Exupery itself should be dependency free, but the tests are
> not. I re-use tests from other packages if they catch a crash in
> Exupery. This can wait though.
>
>  > The benchmarks are...
>  >     arithmaticLoopBenchmark 2487 compiled 285 ratio: 8.726
>  >     bytecodeBenchmark 4271 compiled 1255 ratio: 3.403
>  >     sendBenchmark 3482 compiled 1772 ratio: 1.965
>  >     doLoopsBenchmark 2078 compiled 1663 ratio: 1.250
>  >     largeExplorers 2224 compiled 1683 ratio: 1.321
>  >     compilerBenchmark 2093 compiled 1712 ratio: 1.223
>  >     Cumulative Time 12903.774 compiled 4971.489 ratio 2.596
>
> The numbers look very good to me. The micro benchmarks are worse
> than I get here and the macro benchmarks are much better.
>
> Here's the benchmarks I get:
>    arithmaticLoopBenchmark 1397 compiled 92 ratio: 15.185
>    bytecodeBenchmark 2135 compiled 463 ratio: 4.611
>    sendBenchmark 1576 compiled 699 ratio: 2.255
>    doLoopsBenchmark 1083 compiled 841 ratio: 1.288
>    largeExplorers 356 compiled 366 ratio: 0.973
>    compilerBenchmark 733 compiled 708 ratio: 1.035
>    Cumulative Time 4213.729 compiled 1453.554 ratio 2.899
>
> I'm running an Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz.  What CPU did you use
> for those benchmarks?

Pentium 3 Mobile. 1133MHz.
I need a new PC - then I'd get twice as much work done ;)
Cheers,
Andy

>
> Bryce