Hello all-

I'm not sure if this was mentioned at all, but I ran some benchmarks on a
G5- the campus computer store just got some in.  They only had the 1.6 GHz
model.

The numbers are below.  I was a bit surprised in the performance of the
G5- it seemed to be a little slower in bytecodes/second/MHz than I had
hoped, scoring lower than all three chips I tested, P3, P4 and G4.  I'm
guessing that this has less to do with crappy G5 performance and more with
a complete lack of optimization in OS X (32-bit) and in the VM.

I used a VM version of 3.4.0 beta 2 on the Macs- is there a VM that's been
optimized better for the G5? If so let me know, I'll rerun them.

Here are some numbers, all tests done in Dynapad R2, based on 3.4:

Machine		BC/sec		Sends/sec	BC/s/MHz	Sends/s/MHz
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.6 GHz G5	134665965	4643712		84166		2902
256 MB
OS X 10.2.6
VM 3.4.0b2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dual 500 G4	53244592	1807071		106489		3614
256 MB RAM
OS X 10.2.6
VM 3.4.0b2 [1]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2.4 GHz P4	208469055	4915728		86862		2048
256 MB RAM
Win 2K
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
800 MHz P3	79552517	2238185		99441		2797
384 MB RAM
Win XP

Note: [1] in the per MHz I calculated, I divided by 500 MHz rather than
1000 on the DUal 500 MHz G4; Squeak would only use a tiny bit of the
second CPU if anything at all.

Regards,
Aaron

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