LookEnhancements enhancement

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri Jul 29 04:18:40 UTC 2005


You should run these with a 3.8.8b6 mac VM and see what happens.

On 28-Jul-05, at 6:24 AM, Adrian Lienhard wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I've rerun this on a 3.8 and the very newest 3.9a on my PowerBook  
> 1.25GHz, on a mac 3.7beta1 vm.
>
> On the 3.9a image, LookEnh was even faster than without, in 3.8 it  
> was slower.  There were some performance improvements in 3.9 which  
> seam to have quite some effect. From those numbers, I guess that  
> LookEnh does not have the impact on performance I thought. At least  
> we would need to do some better benchmarks to get reliable numbers...
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
> BTW, here my numbers:
>
> 3.8 without LookEnh
> 9143
> 9226
>
> 3.8 with LookEnh:
> 9900
> 10151
> 9672
>
> 3.9 without LookEnh
> 7688
> 7594
>
> 3.9 with LookEnh
> 6848
> 6762
> 7414
>
>
>
> On Jul 28, 2005, at 4:35 AM, John Pierce wrote:
>
>
>
>> Hi Adrian,
>>
>> On 7/26/05, Adrian Lienhard <adi at netstyle.ch> wrote: Another thing  
>> that stroke me is peed... In 3.8 with the enhancement
>> everything seems to be a bit slower than before (the UI in Squeak
>> never was fast but I have the feeling it become slower with each new
>> release...).
>>
>> To get some numbers (they should probably be treated with care..) I
>> evaluated "[ 10 timesRepeat: [ Browser openBrowser ] ] timeToRun" and
>> got:
>>
>> 3.7 without LookEnhancement:  9674
>> 3.7 with LookEnhancement: 12060
>> 3.8 with LookEnhancement: 15665
>> 3.8 without LookEnhancement: 11138
>>
>> I cannot seem to substantiate these findings. Here's what I get  
>> after successive timed trials:
>>
>> 3.8 without LookEnhancements: 4 - 5 seconds
>> 3.8 with LookEnhancements: 4 - 5 seconds
>>
>> I saw no measurable difference in the timing, and, if any, the  
>> performance was marginally better for some goofy reason. Honest! I  
>> am running a P4 1.7GHz with 1 GB ram. Anyways, I don't find any  
>> hot spots to improve performance on at the moment.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John
>>
>> -- 
>> It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very very hard to have  
>> a simple idea. -- Carver Mead
>>
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