On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 12:15:17 -0800, Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu>
wrote:

> For a long time the gcc optimizer simply wouldn't work for building
> Squeak on ARM. I think the problem version(s) was about 2.95-ish. On
> the old NetWinders that made for approx a halving of performance.

He's running -O2 in the compiler.

> My 600MHz XScale 80321 machine does around 25-30 mBC/sec (depending on
> the phase of the moon it seems) and 1-1.2 milion sends/sec (likwise).
> Since bytecode loops will scale roughly with cpu speed  and sends/sec
> roughly with memory speed, you should be able to get a bit better out
> of your stix.

Yeah, I figure we should get at least 15 or 16 mBC/sec.

Later,
Jon

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