On Saturday, June 11, 2016, Stefan Marr <smalltalk at stefan-marr.de> wrote:

> Hi Tim:
>
> > On 11 Jun 2016, at 07:39, Tim Felgentreff <timfelgentreff at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > About also running TruffleSOM, while it might be interesting for some
> benchmarks, I am really interested in testing VMs that run the full image
> (including heartbeat, event sensor) while running those benchmarks.
>
> The JVM generates safe points, yield points, and all the things that are
> necessary for Java semantics… (i.e., all the equivalents for
> heartbeat/event sensor overhead).
> Also, such minor details don’t account for more than a few percent
> overhead on average.
>
> No excuses :-P
>

The point is that we want to benchmark a full  Smalltalk system, not just a
language runtime. There *is* a difference ;)

- Bert -


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