On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Gonis jeff.gonis@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Everyone,
As Frank mentioned, I am indeed interested in starting to get quantified performance data up and being logged for Squeak on a regular basis. The motivation for this comes from visiting the site arewefastyet.com where Mozilla logs the Javascript performance of Firefox, and also from listening to a talk by Lars Bak, who worked on the Self VM and V8. He stated that one of the first things he does for any of his VM projects is to create a comprehensive set of performance benchmarks that is updated with every commit, because otherwise it is too easy for performance regressions to sneak in while development is occuring.
My hope is that by offering continuous feedback about the performance of Squeak, it will help provide a bit of a catalyst for anyone who is interested to go ahead and try to chip away at the performance of image or VM code. It might also help people understand Squeak's standing in the performance realm, relative to other languages.
Awesome! This is a great idea.
Colin