globals as structure

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Wed Nov 20 21:08:23 UTC 2002


Ah, so what were the numbers before on your machine, and now. Also  
compared to the 3.4.0b2 VM that's up there so I can understand
were 80-95% faster comes from?

On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 09:39  AM, Marcel Weiher wrote:

> Just wanted to report that I've managed to build a new VM with the  
> current VM-Maker sources and John's hack of putting VM globals into a  
> structure.  This shows 80-95% faster bytecodes/s and 66% faster  
> sends/s on the tinyBenchmarks.
>
> Were there any other significant changes to the VM that would explain  
> this?
>
> Not that I'm complaining ;-)
>
> Marcel
>
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