On 21 May 2010 12:59, Alain_Rastoul <alr.dev at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently tryed then 4.1 and discovered a strange behavior that appearead
> to be true with the 3.10 also.
> The test is simply running benchFib in series of runs.
> If I run the test 10 times, on of the run is about 2-3 times faster than the
> others, and I can't explain that.
>
> 10 timesRepeat: [
>  | r t |
>   t := Time millisecondsToRun: [r := 26 benchFib].
>   Transcript show: ((r * 1000) // t) ; cr.
>  ]
>
> will give me 10 numbers about 2486297 (one of the runs)
> but one run will give me 10 numbers about 6773017.
> I stopped all I could stop on my laptop and nothing else but squeak is
> running...
> I made a TimeProfileBrowser and the inner loop of the profile seems to show
> that primitives are more than 2 times faster.
> (and everything seems 2 times faster)
> Anybody noticed that (I searched the web but found nothing) ?
> primitive calls ?
> methodCache?
>
garbage collection?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alain
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