Comparison between Smalltalk VM versions

Generally speaking, VW3.x's performance is poor with respect to Jun's standard benchmark. Memory management and Floating point math may be the weak point of VW3.

Let's check some sets of reports measured on the same machines.

reportIddateRPltfmClrVWJunAllcrtshwbentxrtrnvor del
BF81B4A32002Oct244win32243.045420.211.93.27.717.258.321.021.8
BF81B1812002Oct244win32325i.44548.33.43.26.715.99.09.610.6
BF81B2872002Oct244win323274548.23.42.86.815.69.29.310.3
reportIddateRPltfmClrVWJunAllcrtshwbentxrtrnvor del
BF83C7792002Oct264win32243.045418.73.92.717.024.051.715.716.3
BF83C4E22002Oct264win32325i.44549.42.92.415.722.57.67.17.8
BF83C5CD2002Oct264win323274549.23.02.315.421.97.67.07.6
reportIddateRPltfmClrVWJunAllcrtshwbentxrtrnvor del
BF83D2642002Oct264mac243.045419.86.51.35.011.325.043.745.5
BF83CADC2002Oct264mac245i.445412.35.31.04.410.912.125.926.7
BF83CF082002Oct264mac24745413.87.31.34.911.017.526.528.4
reportIddateRPltfmClrVWJunAllcrtshwbentxrtrnvor del
BF8282372002Oct254win32243.045431.56.35.312.411.599.141.244.8
BF881B422002Oct294win3216745413.65.34.911.310.614.322.326.6
reportIddateRPltfmClrVWJunAllcrtshwbentxrtrnvor del
BF7F28D42002Oct224mac153.045248.437.41.917.116.9131.264.469.8
BF7F21CA2002Oct224mac155i.445217.95.81.515.316.013.635.437.7
BF7E3CB22002Oct224mac15745222.49.87.415.616.419.643.844.5
reportIddateRPltfmClrVWJunAllcrtshwbentxrtrnvor del
BF7E64212002Oct224win32243.04489.14.63.28.38.418.410.310.5
BF7E65042002Oct224win32165i.44486.52.23.07.67.88.77.88.2
BF7D84FE2002Oct214win321674485.61.82.47.47.87.56.06.5

Please refer to Legend of result summary list for the meaning of each column in the heading (abbreviated as crt, shw, etc.).


WATANABE Katsuhiro

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