Integer micro-benchmarks

[Steve Wart]

1.2GHz Athlon, Win2K SP2, 512Mb RAM -> David
333 PII, Win2K SP1, 192Mb RAM -> Steve
[I gotta get in Redmond's good books :)]

"David Simmons" <pulsar at qks.com> wrote ...
> "Steve Wart" <swart at deadspam.com> wrote ...
> > Here is some more silliness.
> >
> > If you take the #triangle method and turn it into a block closure, as
below,
> > in VW it takes almost 10 seconds (on my 333 PII)
>
> Really!  10 seconds versus 7 seconds?
>
> Good goobley goo. I just ran it on VW and got the times:
>
> 1784ms for 9,000,000 loops using <result> local to the block.
>
> 4102ms for 9,000,000 loops using <result> as a method temp (shared with
the block).
>
How come I have about a 30% difference and yours is over 100%? Is this a CPU
caching thing?

> The same runs on SmallScript were:
> 1313ms vs 1380ms respectively

This is the AOS VM? I wonder how it would do on the .NET VM? If you are not
at liberty to say, tap twice :)

Does SmallScript come with AOS?

Steve