On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:20:10 -0700 "J Chapman" <carolan at pmail.net> wrote: 
>> Just did it :
>> 22727272 bytecodes/sec; 1123996 sends/sec
>> 
>> Scales pretty well :-)
>>
>>
>> Could it be that there is a timing problem with the bytecodes/sec
>> benchmark?
>> This is exactly the same result as for the Mac.
>
>Same number of bytecodes/second, but more message sends. That's
>interesting. Has anyone seen greater than 22727272 bytecodes/second?

Yup,

29411764 bytecodes/sec; 1144001 sends/sec on a 400 MHz G3.

Cheers,
Bob