Athlon Benchmark

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Jul 26 22:25:21 UTC 2000


Michael Rueger wrote:
> 
> Ned Konz wrote:
> > Michael Rueger wrote:
> > > just ran the tinyBenchmark on my shiny new 700 Mhz Athlon, 256 MB:
> > >  '69830878 bytecodes/sec; 2106836 sends/sec'
> > > Any explanation why the bytecode number is that high?
> > > It's not a Thunderbird, so it can't be the onchip cache.
> > That's about proportional to what I got; I have a 466 MHz Celeron
> > and got about 42000000 bytecodes/sec.
> 
> I took this as the reference, that's why I'm surprised:
> "On a 400 MHz PII/Win98:  18028169 bytecodes/sec; 1081272 sends/sec"
> 
> Well, the comment doesn't say anything about the VM.
> So I tested an older one:
> 2.7 RB 8
>  '31403336 bytecodes/sec; 2056941 sends/sec'

Your benchmark numbers are less with the newer kernel?
Perhaps the development VM is not being optimized as well
because of debugging...

On my machine:

466 MHz Celeron (SMP, but that doesn't matter to Squeak).
2.9alpha, Linux

0 tinyBenchmarks
 '42384105 bytecodes/sec; 1394869 sends/sec'

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Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
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