Mmm if someone could run some mpeg3 benchmarks with the old plugin & 
VM, versus the new VM (which has it builtin?) on Windows I'd be 
interested to know the performance improvements (if any?)

Also I'm looking for some windows builder, and or linux intel 
gcc3.x.x builder to consider the jumptable pointer logic and global 
structure logic and CGeneratorEnhancements-ajh changes as I've posted 
in the mac folder on source forge.

given gcc 2.95.3 on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE-p28 i386

Ian's VM code from last week:
29962546 bytecodes/sec; 965687 sends/sec

versus with jumptable pointer logic and global structure logic and 
CGeneratorEnhancements-ajh

38670694 bytecodes/sec; 1129720 sends/sec

Gee that's 29% and 17%.

Not a statistically insignificance number for people wanting more 
performance from their intel VM.

These changes are currently running in the 3.2.7b3 mac VM, and I've 
not hear any complaints. (If you don't speak up then bugs won't get 
fixed). Of course fixing them and offering the change sets/code 
changes is *way* better.

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