Hans-Martin Mosner <hmm at heeg.de> is widely believed to have written:

> do you have any performance data for the Squeak VM on that RISC core?
It's not going to be terribly fast at only 80MHz (ARM can do 400MHz for
ARM1020FE, ARM/XScale can do 1GHz ). And the mips/watt is quite good but
not exceptional (XSCALE claims 1.2gips/watt at 800MHz, 3+gips/watt at
400MHz, ARM1020 is around 1.5gips/watt including an array float
processor) . And variable length instructions doesn't really fit with
the claims of being 'strictly RISC' in the blurb.

Nonetheless, it's a good bit of work to do all the code to support it
and get Squeak running - congratulations. Variety is the spice of life -
but try explaining that to your spouse :-)

tim
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