tinyBenchmarks on PocketSmalltalk [ was Re: Interesting new target with Palm OS]

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon Oct 23 19:38:36 UTC 2000


On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Eric Arseneau wrote:

> > Ok, heres what I get on my Palm IIIe (Palm OS 3.1):
> >    ~17,500 bytecodes/sec
> >    ~1,260 sends/sec
> 
> When I saw this I had to laugh/cry, but I was not surprised.
> 
> I would be very interested in finding out how you found the number of
> bytecodes.

The code was attached. However, I would expect it depends on the compiler
- one should count how many bytecodes actually are executed. For example,
#at: and #at:put: are not bytecodes in PocketSmalltalk according to
http://www.pocketsmalltalk.com/bytecode.html .

-- Bert





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