this is nice I will give a try thursday (now travelling). Stef On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:24 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:
Ok, well you don' t need to run special software. You just need to use a non-optimized VM The *worst* case is turn 32bit mode on, and use Rosetta I've put a non-optimized VM in the experimental folder/COCOA via http://smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html called Squeak V5 SLOW VERSION FOR TESTING DO NOT USE FOR GENERAL USE.app.zip That gives you something that is like 8 or 10 times slower than normal.
Perhaps someone can run some benchmarks other than tinybenchmarks to confirm?
64bit mode, 32bit image
'52805280 bytecodes/sec; 1763285 sends/sec' '55030094 bytecodes/sec; 1738242 sends/sec' '57040998 bytecodes/sec; 1704137 sends/sec' '57091882 bytecodes/sec; 1741615 sends/sec' '57040998 bytecodes/sec; 1736000 sends/sec' '56888888 bytecodes/sec; 1765598 sends/sec' '57193923 bytecodes/sec; 1749536 sends/sec' '57142857 bytecodes/sec; 1732649 sends/sec' '56487202 bytecodes/sec; 1722672 sends/sec' '55797733 bytecodes/sec; 1629865 sends/sec'
32bit mode via Get Info , 32bit image '62439024 bytecodes/sec; 1779601 sends/sec' '62439024 bytecodes/sec; 1780778 sends/sec' '63054187 bytecodes/sec; 1787873 sends/sec' '61895551 bytecodes/sec; 1796222 sends/sec' '62930186 bytecodes/sec; 1804649 sends/sec' '62439024 bytecodes/sec; 1818053 sends/sec' '62317429 bytecodes/sec; 1826687 sends/sec' '62930186 bytecodes/sec; 1831657 sends/sec' '63178677 bytecodes/sec; 1807071 sends/sec' '62015503 bytecodes/sec; 1815601 sends/sec'
32bit mode via Get Info , 32bit image, Rosette mode aka PowerPC emulation on MacIntel '38905775 bytecodes/sec; 1264497 sends/sec' '39191671 bytecodes/sec; 1265459 sends/sec' '39215686 bytecodes/sec; 1235396 sends/sec' '39384615 bytecodes/sec; 1241850 sends/sec' '39000609 bytecodes/sec; 1274179 sends/sec' '39384615 bytecodes/sec; 1256857 sends/sec' '39287906 bytecodes/sec; 1247435 sends/sec' '39825762 bytecodes/sec; 1238154 sends/sec' '39312039 bytecodes/sec; 1245568 sends/sec' '38787878 bytecodes/sec; 1260665 sends/sec'
Normally, optimized 64bit mode, 32bit image CHEATING '433530906 bytecodes/sec; 13051576 sends/sec' '432432432 bytecodes/sec; 13042352 sends/sec' '433898305 bytecodes/sec; 13051576 sends/sec' '433530906 bytecodes/sec; 13042352 sends/sec' '433898305 bytecodes/sec; 12941745 sends/sec' '433898305 bytecodes/sec; 13023944 sends/sec' '414910858 bytecodes/sec; 12815922 sends/sec' '433898305 bytecodes/sec; 13005587 sends/sec' '433164128 bytecodes/sec; 13005587 sends/sec' '434266327 bytecodes/sec; 12444321 sends/sec'
On 2009-12-06, at 2:58 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
Ok excellent then. I should chekc because I have first generation powerbook around.
On PC they have a tools that slow donw a computer to get the same power as an old one.
The conclusion is that we should continue to work on making it faster.
Arthuro using 1.1 changing the theme using StrikeFont installDejaVu and setting up the fonts give a better feel
Does anybody know a software slowing down a mac (because the problem is that I'm not sure that I can run a closure VM on a old mac I have) so that we could do some tests on slow machines?
Stef
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