Just a detail, this is not my code, it's code from various authors
found on shootout benchmarking site, and ported by Eliot on Squeak.
I just took care to extract form VMMaker and publish the package on
its own, because it has its own value.

Otherwise, that's great to see it in action!

What will trigger an evaluation, e new published VM?
Do you plan to support several VM flavours (Cog, Stack, Interpreter)?
If so, it would be great to compare them.

Nicolas

2013/2/26 Jeff Gonis <jeff.gonis at gmail.com>:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> So with a lot of help from Frank Shearar and Nicolas Cellier, I have
> introduced performance benchmarking to the SqueakCI server.  You can
> see our current performance trends at the following link:
> http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk/performance/
>
> I grabbed the shootout code from Nicolas Cellier, and tried to pick
> input values that would allow the tests to run in 5-10 seconds, enough
> to allow room for significant improvements without making the build
> take forever.  I would like to encourage anyone who is interested to
> take a look at the benchmarks.st script that is part of the SqueakCI
> setup and send me advice if you have it.  I haven't done much
> benchmarking so I am sure there are many places I could improve what
> is done.  In the future I would also like to maybe add python or ruby
> benchmarks to the server, so that we can compare Squeak's performance
> vs other current languages.
>
> I would also like to encourage anyone who is interested to grab
> Nicolas' code and try to speed up Squeak itself, either on the image
> or the VM side.  Now you can see the results of your work right away!
>
> So, that is where things stand right now.  This is just the first
> step.  Much as Frank has greatly expanded the CI server, I hope to
> eventually add in benchmarks looking at graphical performance in
> squeak (Balloon vs Gezira vs Cairo, etc), maybe network performance,
> etc, etc.  If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I would love to hear
> them.
>
> Thank you all for your time, and for any feedback you can provide.
> Jeff
>