You should run these with a 3.8.8b6 mac VM and see what happens.
On 28-Jul-05, at 6:24 AM, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
Hi John,
I've rerun this on a 3.8 and the very newest 3.9a on my PowerBook 1.25GHz, on a mac 3.7beta1 vm.
On the 3.9a image, LookEnh was even faster than without, in 3.8 it was slower. There were some performance improvements in 3.9 which seam to have quite some effect. From those numbers, I guess that LookEnh does not have the impact on performance I thought. At least we would need to do some better benchmarks to get reliable numbers...
Cheers, Adrian
BTW, here my numbers:
3.8 without LookEnh 9143 9226
3.8 with LookEnh: 9900 10151 9672
3.9 without LookEnh 7688 7594
3.9 with LookEnh 6848 6762 7414
On Jul 28, 2005, at 4:35 AM, John Pierce wrote:
Hi Adrian,
On 7/26/05, Adrian Lienhard adi@netstyle.ch wrote: Another thing that stroke me is peed... In 3.8 with the enhancement everything seems to be a bit slower than before (the UI in Squeak never was fast but I have the feeling it become slower with each new release...).
To get some numbers (they should probably be treated with care..) I evaluated "[ 10 timesRepeat: [ Browser openBrowser ] ] timeToRun" and got:
3.7 without LookEnhancement: 9674 3.7 with LookEnhancement: 12060 3.8 with LookEnhancement: 15665 3.8 without LookEnhancement: 11138
I cannot seem to substantiate these findings. Here's what I get after successive timed trials:
3.8 without LookEnhancements: 4 - 5 seconds 3.8 with LookEnhancements: 4 - 5 seconds
I saw no measurable difference in the timing, and, if any, the performance was marginally better for some goofy reason. Honest! I am running a P4 1.7GHz with 1 GB ram. Anyways, I don't find any hot spots to improve performance on at the moment.
Regards,
John
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