> From:  Yoshiki.Ohshima at a...
> Date:   Wed Jul 9, 2003  2:13 am
> Subject:   Re: [ENH][VM] Improved code generation (hopefully ;)
>
> ...
> In the above benchmark, you can unroll the loop to measure the real
> difference:
>
> ^ Time millisecondsToRun: [1000000 timesRepeat: [
> 1 asFloat. 1 asFloat. 1 asFloat. 1 asFloat. 1 asFloat.
> 1 asFloat. 1 asFloat. 1 asFloat. 1 asFloat. 1 asFloat.
> ]].
>
> I bet the difference is actually more than 15%.
>
> # And, I advocated to have the no-fill version of non-pointer object
> # creation primitive almost 3 years ago^^;
>

Squeak time is not internet time, it moves slower...

However doing the unrolled loop with 25 asFloats shows about a 5%  
speedup. The 15% talked
about earlier comes from hardware performance counters that measure  
code usage.

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