I wrote:
> Doug Way wrote:
>...

>>Actually, better yet you could have a quick tinyBenchmarks test as part 
>>of the testForSlugishness to use as a sort of baseline for machine 
>>speed.  Then, you could test that "Browser open" or whatever only takes 
>>a certain amount of time relative to your sends/sec speed, so it should 
>>be roughly equivalent on slow & fast machines.
> 
> 
> There is a problem with timeToRun: it is not independent from other
> running Squeak or system processes.
> Better would be a measurement of executed bytecodes and message sends
> for just this test, which should be independent from interrupts. This is
> especially important for tests, which mustn't fail.
> 
> Any idea?

Interesting, too, could be a CPU running time for *each* Smalltalk
process: but how to realize without compromising VM performance? Or
wouldn't this be an issue?


Greetings
Stephan

> ...