[ANN] Nile 0.9.0

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Jun 10 17:38:18 UTC 2007


>> The best way to measure in this kind of scenario is to measure
>> instructions. If the VM would support counting byte code
>> instructions executed, ideally on a per-process basis, you would
>> get a more precise measurement.
> 
> ContextPart class>>tallyInstructions: aBlock
>     "This method uses the simulator to count the number of occurrences of
>     each of the Smalltalk instructions executed during evaluation of
> aBlock.
>     Results appear in order of the byteCode set."

Very interesting. It shouldn't be necessary each block more than once
under this method; ideally, two subsequent runs should give the same
numbers. Interpreting the numbers might be a challenge if one
competitor has more instructions of one kind, but fewer instructions
of another kind, than the other competitor.

Regards,
Martin



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