I think Tim's work on the primitive call logic has increase sends/sec  
performance.
I know he saw a huge performance boost on RISC.

On Jun 19, 2004, at 2:17 AM, Marcus Denker wrote:

> I ran some Benchmarks. (PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz, MacOS 10.3.4)
>
> 3.7.3Beta4: #(7328 38307 0 6244 0 9091 9091)
> 3.7.4Beta1: #(7313 35686 0 6241 0 8658 8658)
>
>
> Beta4: '116681859 bytecodes/sec; 5164216 sends/sec'
> Beta1: '116363636 bytecodes/sec; 5221596 sends/sec'
>
> Nice!
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