[squeak-dev] Re: Morphic Performance Graphs
Levente Uzonyi
leves at elte.hu
Fri Apr 29 15:12:52 UTC 2011
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
> Nice! :)
>
> I think you should run several passes for each value of "amount" and
> visualize the average value for each "amount" to get more meaningful
> results. There are several peaks in your graphs that, I think, do not
> represent the average use case but the influence of another hidden variable
> (e.g., garbage collector) you want to block out in your results.
>
> As far as I could see, you did not considered that in your benchmark code.
> Correct me, if I am wrong. :)
GC is part of the execution. Ignoring it for benchmarks with high memory
usage yields false results. A single GC before each run is useful though,
but I guess it's effect is not that significant for this benchmark. Note
that the cost of finalization is also different among the used images.
Levente
>
> Marcel
>
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