Avi Bryant wrote:

> 
> On my machine, the Squeak port renders David's 640x480 sample image in 
> 174 seconds.  VisualWorks renders the same image in 72s.  So VisualWorks 
> is about 2.5x as fast as Squeak at this.
> 
> David claims that POVRay's optimized C code is in turn 4x faster than 
> his VisualWorks code.  Which should mean that Squeak is 1/10th the speed 
> of POVRay.
> 
> Not bad, IMO.
> 

That results puzzle me. If I am not wrong  a comparison of the 
performance of several Smalltalks was presented by one of the keynote 
speakers at ESUG2003, and Squeak was -much- faster than VisualWorks.