- 2.8 GHz Pentium 4, running Debian Linux, proprietary NVidia driver
- 2.4 GHz Athlon 64 (dual processor), running Ubuntu Linux, proprietary NVidia driver
- Apple MacBook Pro - 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo (dual processor) running Mac OS X
- Apple PowerMac - 2.5 GHz G5 (quad processor) running Mac OS X
The benchmarks were:
- Stage 2 bootstrap - this involves compiling all words, building the online help search index, and loading the UI backend.
- Fibonacci - this tests procedure activation overhead and integer math.
- Mandelbrot - this tests complex number arithmetic.
- Raytracer - this tests floating point arithmetic.
- Evaluating
[ tests compiler-tests ] time
in the UI listener - the unit tests themselves include a lot of performance-intensive code, and this also measures how fast the UI can relayout and redraw, since the tests generate a lot of output.
The results were interesting. The best result in each row is shown in italics.
Pentium 4 | AMD64 | MacBook Pro | PowerMac G5 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bootstrap (mins:secs) | 4:56 | 4:40 | 4:38 | 6:19 |
Fibonacci (ms) | 360 | 320 | 470 | 830 |
Mandelbrot (secs) | 3.3 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 5.4 |
Raytracer (secs) | 18 | 21 | 18 | 42 |
Unit tests (secs) | 24 | 22 | 20 | 38 |
The results indicate there is a lot more work to do on the PowerPC compiler backend. The Core Duo's good performance is rather surprising.
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