[Vm-dev] Win32 beta test

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Ian Piumarta wrote:

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> On Sep 17, 2012, at 08:08 , Ian Piumarta wrote:
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>>> This VM is slightly slower than the ones built with the old 2.95 gcc (bytecodes ~5%, sends ~22% according to tinyBenchmarks).
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>> I removed a -mpentium that is not understood by the current compiler.
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> "gcc 4.7.0"		0 tinyBenchmarks
> '933029612 bytecodes/sec; 25242859 sends/sec'
> '927536231 bytecodes/sec; 25217697 sends/sec'
> '932180245 bytecodes/sec; 24614121 sends/sec'
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> "gcc 2.95 -mpentium"	0 tinyBenchmarks
> '911032028 bytecodes/sec; 22911061 sends/sec'
> '896280087 bytecodes/sec; 22931829 sends/sec'
> '948148148 bytecodes/sec; 22973478 sends/sec'
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> There are four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistic, and benchmarks running on x86. :)

So something has changed in the code too. I compared the VM you built 
with the VM I built last year using the old 2.95 gcc: 
http://leves.web.elte.hu/squeak/SqueakVM-Win32-4.4.9-2358-non-official-bin.zip


Levente

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> Regards,
> Ian
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