Dear VM guys,

why is the VM generated from Squeak3.2gamma #4743 so slow?

I have made a comparison between an actual VM generated by
VMMaker-3-2-version5 with the standard distribution from Ian and got bad -
performance - results (see below).

Any ideas?

Note: it's not possible to generate an actual interp.c and compile it with
Ian's sources, since there is the new 64 bit stuff.


Greetings,

Stephan


### tests...

Smalltalk garbageCollect "made once before 3 time measurements for each VM"


[0 tinyBenchmarks] timeToRun "time measurement"

 5039 4944 4951 "times"
"Generate All, all plugins internal; compiled with actual SF sources
$ srSqueak -version
 3.2a-4653 #1 [oss audio, xshm] Fri Feb 22 09:22:34 CET 2002 gcc 2.95.4
Linux karl 2.4.9 #8 Wed Jan 9 12:03:44 CET 2002 i686 unknown
default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.2a-4653/*.so
"

 3436 3432 3441 "times"
"Ian's sources Squeak-3.1a-4164pre1-src.tar.gz
$ mySqueak -version
 i686-pc-linux-gnu 3.1a-4164 #3 XShm Fri Feb 22 08:59:14 CET 2002 gcc 2.95.4
Linux karl 2.4.9 #8 Wed Jan 9 12:03:44 CET 2002 i686 unknown
default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.1a-4164/*.so
"

-- 
Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
   "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
    You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
    -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3