[ANN] New Version of VI4 (block closures)

Stephen Pair squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Wed Oct 23 21:11:32 UTC 2002


> "Stephen Pair" <spair at acm.org> wrote:
> > I just downloaded VI4 and tried the CCodeGenerator 
> benchmark below (on 
> > a 1ghz PIII laptop): Smalltalk garbageCollect.
> > [((CCodeGenerator new initialize
> > 	addClass: Interpreter;
> > 	prepareMethods;
> > 	doInlining: true)
> > 		cCodeForMethod: #interpret)] timeToRun
> > Normal vm: 23,230 ms
> > VI4 vm: 12,339 ms
> > Fantastic!
> 
> DId you run the Normal vm with the VI4 Interpreter code 
> loaded, so your comparing the same thing.  I did and got (on 
> my old Pentium II): Normal vm: 45965 ms VI4 vm: 31404 ms

Oops, no I didn't...forgot to do that.

- Stephen




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