From: Dean Swan@MITEL on 09/24/99 06:45 PM
Dwight,
Thanks. I updated my image from the server, and re-ran the benchmarks. It averaged 20085903 bytecodes/S. Here are my actual results:
0 tinyBenchmarks.
"with Psion Emulator running" '20100502 bytecodes/sec; 1212885 sends/sec' '19962570 bytecodes/sec; 1221790 sends/sec' '20227560 bytecodes/sec; 1221790 sends/sec' '20356234 bytecodes/sec; 1221790 sends/sec'
"without Psion Emulator running" '20227560 bytecodes/sec; 1222688 sends/sec' '20214782 bytecodes/sec; 1221790 sends/sec' '20227560 bytecodes/sec; 1221790 sends/sec' '19370460 bytecodes/sec; 1186932 sends/sec'
-Dean Swan dean_swan@mitel.com
Dwight Hughes dwighth@ipa.net on 09/24/99 05:09:47 PM
Please respond to squeak@cs.uiuc.edu
To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu cc: (bcc: Dean Swan/Ogd/Mitel)
Subject: Re: Strange WinNT Performance Issue
I was seeing this "quantization" effect earlier when I was running the benchmarks -- I would see values of 16,666,666 pop up occasionally on a PII/300 or 25,000,000 on a PII/400. I increased the values in #tinyBenchmarks to get stable realistic answers. In update 1437 to 2.5 Andreas Raab changed #tinyBenchmark so it automatically compensates by increasing the values enough to make the benchmarks run for at least 1 second each on any machine. Try getting the last set of 2.5 updates from the server and see what the benchmarks say.
-- Dwight
Dean_Swan@Mitel.COM wrote:
Andreas,
I just tried an intersting benchmark experiment. On my PII/450 at work,
running WinNT/SP4, Squeak 2.5 (through 1432), 2.5 VM (build 6):
case 1) Open applications under NT - Psion EPOC32 R5 Emulator, Win 3.1 Terminal Program, Premia CodeWrite 5.1b, Internet Explorer 4.01
0 tinyBenchmarks. 25000000 bytecodes/s, 1208527 sends/s
case 2) Open applications under NT - Win 3.1 Terminal Program, Premia CodeWrite 5.1b, Internet Explorer 4.01
0 tinyBenchmarks. 16666666 bytecodes/s, 1208527 sends/s
I'm not entirely sure what this means, other than that the PII/450 is capable
of
performing at the same level as a G3/333 iMac. The odd thing is that having
the
Psion emulator running seems to make Squeak run faster!
I don't know if this suggests any VM issues or not, but I thought I'd share
the
raw data point anyway.
-Dean Swan dean_swan@mitel.com
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