Block Closures are here! Linux VM update

Bergel Alexandre bergel at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Jan 23 17:06:56 UTC 2002


On http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/NewBlockClosureVersion you can find a prebuilt version of the VM linux-x86 version.

It is really impressive the speed-up with this version. 
Without BlockClosure support '0 tinyBenchmarks' result was about (after 5 runs) :
'28021015 bytecodes/sec; 1273205 sends/sec'

Using the VM with block closure it is about :
 '38976857 bytecodes/sec; 2044447 sends/sec'

For that I use a compaq pressario laptop (700Mhz, 128 Mo, linux kernel 2.4.3).

Regards,
Alexandre


On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:41:49AM -0500, Anthony Hannan wrote:
> I finally finished implementing block closures.  Please check it out on the
> swiki at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/NewBlockClosureVersion. 
> Feel free to email me if you have any questions.  I put a lot of work
> into this, so I hope it gets used and eventually gets into the main
> release.
> 
> Cheers,
> Anthony



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