Tim --

At 11:26 AM -0700 4/20/01, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>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 :-)

She'll understand if you make the analogy to new clothes ....

Cheers,

Alan