Wow... As an aside, the results from my new Mac Book Pro, with a 2.16  
GHz Core 2 Duo:

483,931,947 bytecodes/sec; 10,129,460 sends/sec

Comparing this to the Mac Mini 1.5 GHz Core Solo:

224 million bytecodes/sec per GHz for Core 2 Duo
150 million bytecodes/sec per GHz for Core Solo

Mind you, there might be differences in VM or image version.  But  
still, I was surprised to see that my new MBP was doing 50% more  
million bytecodes/sec per GHz than the previous revision of the Intel  
Core CPU.  The Core 2 isn't supposed to be that much faster, which  
makes me wonder-

is there any way the second core in the CPU is getting used?  I mean,  
obviously it isn't be used by Squeak through native threads, but  
would various prims being called be managed by different cores in the  
CPU, as delegated by Mac OS X? Just curious...

Vewy vewy interesting...  Interesting to see the PS3's numbers, even  
if they are horrid. :)

Regards,
Aaron

On Jan 18, 2007, at 1:38 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> Ok, just to cross check, by pulling some old email:
>
> 1 tinyBenchmarks shows on my old PowerBook 17inch 1.5Ghz.
> '113,274,336 bytecodes/sec; 5,111,787 sends/sec'
>
> A mac carbon universal VM  on a mac mini 1.5Ghz solo does
> '226,548,672 bytecodes/sec; 5,811,339 sends/sec'
>
> So ya those numbers suck.
> Which version of GCC are you using?
>
> On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Jerry Bell wrote:
>
>> Tried it again,  this time it's 76,281,287 bytecodes/second, and  
>> 2,774,915 sends/second.
>>
>> Is it possible that I screwed something up when I built the VM?
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