Dwight Hughes wrote:

> I assume you are on a Windows VM -- Andreas changed over to a GCC based
> set of tools to generate the most recent VMs for Win32, which allowed
> some crucial optimizations for Pentiums with a quite significant
> performance increase (putting things more on par with the PowerPC based
> VMs).

Actually I am on Mac. I too looked closer and noted that the bytecode part
stays below 8192 for integers. So I guess the increase is real then. But the
message send rate stays roughly the same.

Henrik