#tinyBenchmarks is just running #benchmark and #benchFib - neither of
these creates LargeIntegers. For my system (a PII/400) I'm getting:

42049934 bytecodes/sec; 1146059 sends/sec

Checking the arguments #tinyBenchmarks is passing on my system (it
scales the values to make each benchmark run for at least 1 second on
any machine): 128 for benchmark; 29 for benchFib. A larger receiver for
#benchmark simply increases the number of iterations through the seive;
29 benchFib is only 1664079 and no larger values are produced during
execution.

I assume you are on a Windows VM -- Andreas changed over to a GCC based
set of tools to generate the most recent VMs for Win32, which allowed
some crucial optimizations for Pentiums with a quite significant
performance increase (putting things more on par with the PowerPC based
VMs).

-- Dwight

Henrik Gedenryd wrote:
> 
> 2.8 reports a bytecode rate almost 50% higher than before for
> Integer>>tinyBenchmark, and I'm guessing that this is caused by the
> LargeIntegers plugin.
> 
> In any case, if this is true I'm not well enough initiated to fix this.
> 
> Henrik