> On Jan 1, 2021, at 9:43 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> On a Pi 4 - 
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>> (Time millisecondsToRun:[ 25 benchFib ]) > 200
>>      or: [ (Time millisecondsToRun: [ 64 benchmark ]) > 200 ]
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> 19mS & 143mS
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> I don't see an issue with possibly slowing down the first startup to test performance as long as
> a) it isn't a multi-second delay
> b) it says what it is doing
>   "Checking system performance in order to provide advice on suitable setup options"
> would be apropos.

I’m sorry but it’s completely unacceptable.  19ms is an age.  Simple Unix commands are done in that time.  50 of those and a second has elapsed.  Imagine one is using a Smalltalk script with the Unix find command and one can not do better than 50 applications per second.

We know that we can derive a meaningful performance figure from existing work.  Why are we even considering adding unnecessary overhead?

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> tim
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