2009/4/30 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>> A quick comparion for Delays:
>>
>>       delay := Delay forMilliseconds: 1.
>>       bag := Bag new.
>>       1000 timesRepeat:[bag add: [delay wait] timeToRun].
>>       bag sortedCounts
>>
>> on my 4-core box it yields:
>>
>> - with AdvancedProcessorScheduler install
>>  a SortedCollection(951->2 49->1)
>>
>> - with Processor fallbackToOldScheduler
>>  a SortedCollection(953->2 47->1)
>>
>> - with old VM
>>  a SortedCollection(952->2 47->1 1->3)
>>
>> not much overhead huh? :)
>
> That's not exactly the kind of benchmark I was looking for (if your process
> scheduler takes milliseconds to do a switch I think we're not even close to
> the ballpark ;-) More interesting for comparison is this (requires
> closures):
>
>  semas := Array new: 10000.
>  plist := Array new: 10000.
>  1 to: semas size do:[:i| semas at: i put: Semaphore new].
>  1 to: plist size-1 do:[:i| plist at: i put: [(semas at: i) wait. (semas
> at:i+1) signal] fork].
>  [semas first signal. semas last wait] timeToRun.
>

I not yet tried to apply changes to VMMaker with closures.
Do you have a recipe, which base image could load latest VMMaker w/o
problems? Is 3.10.2 ok for it?

> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>



-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.