Mac 3.0 benchmarks

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Thu Feb 8 07:40:52 UTC 2001


Hm ... browsers?! Try turning off the #browseWithDragAndDrop preference.
Maybe that's what you're feeling?!

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Carlson [mailto:nop at nop.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 7:13 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
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> Subject: RE: Mac 3.0 benchmarks
> 
> 
> Eric Scharff [mailto:Eric.Scharff at Colorado.EDU] writes:
> 
> > The feeling that Squeak 3.0 feels sluggish (especially when 
> compared to
> > 2.8) seems to be verified by the benchmarks.
> 
> I'm not sure I trust the benchmarks for this.  I see more 
> sluggishness than
> a 10% change in benchmark numbers would suggest.
> 
> My configuration is a Celeron 450 running Windows 2000.
> 
> I was trying to pin down a repeatable, quantifiable test, but 
> didn't get
> anywhere with the quantifiable part.  Here's what I did:
> 
> Open a fresh Squeak 2.8 image (with either 2.8 or 3.0 VM).   
> Enter a morphic
> project. Open a browser.  Now click around on lots of classes 
> and methods.
> Feels fast.
> 
> Open a fresh Squeak 2.9 or 3.0.a0 image (with either 2.8 or 
> 3.0 VM).  Get
> that browser up.  Click on lots of classes and methods.  On 
> my machine,
> there is a very visible difference in responsiveness---it 
> takes a fraction
> of a second to react to clicks.  If it had sound effects, it 
> would sound
> like "clickCLUNK" instead of just "click".
> 
> (By the way, the four 2.9 images I tried were the ones from 
> the 2.9alpha ftp
> directory.  Adding the interCycle <= didn't affect 
> responsiveness on 2.9;
> didn't check 2.8.  higherPerformance didn't affect in two 
> 2.9s or 3.0.a0)
> 
> I think I remember this response time change on my laptop, which is a
> Pentium 233, but wrote it off to, well, test piloting and not 
> having the
> right VM.  I bet it will be a lot easier to notice this (if 
> it exists for
> other people) on slower machines.
> 
> I'm hoping somebody will come along and point out that I've 
> got some doodad
> misconfigured, or my machine sucks---I'm quite willing to 
> believe this is a
> local problem.
> 
> Jay
> 





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