HashBits, a lazy way

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Jul 11 20:06:54 UTC 2003


Stephen Pair <stephen at pairhome.net> wrote:

> I wonder how this will translate to real world performance?  5% 
> improvement?  10%?  Since real code doesn't allocate a bunch of objects 
> in a tight loop like this, I imagine that the % of total cycles spent in 
> allocation must be lower than the 20% in this test case.  It would be 
> nice to have some real world benchmarks to compare...building the 
> interpreter is nice, but how about picking a decent sized package and 
> installing it in the image (from disk)?  Since, people do tend to do 
> that quite a lot.
> 

Some nice CPU-bound tests might be:

	BouncingAtoms.  See how high of a frame rate you can get.  :)

	"Morph compileAll"

	load a Celeste index file for a large mail DB



-Lex



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