Hi - someone forwarded your pharo list posting to me and since I don't have time to follow it as well as all the other stuff I have to read I thought I'd reply directly to you and let you post it if you feel inclined.

>> 0 tinyBenchmarks '10471204 bytecodes/sec; 307552 sends/sec'

- is dismal. It's about 1/3rd the figures I get on either Raspbian or RISC OS for the plain Squeak interpreter. For the stackvm on Raspbian (which has been working and in the repository for a long time now) I get 35m & 1.8m and the whole system benchmarks about 50% faster than the plain interp. Using the venerable PARC benchmarks with suitable updates I get a Dorado rating of about 2800.

To get such poor figures something must be wrong in the build setup; the worst I ever saw was when a mistake on my part completely left out the gcc -O2 (or whatever) flag.

tim
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