Re: [Help-smalltalk] Language Shootout GNU Smalltalk

[Isaac Gouy]

> > GNU Smalltalk is now in "The Great Computer Language Shootout"
> >    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/lang/gst/

> I had tried implementing the programs myself to do some benchmarking 
> last summer.  I can dig them out.

That would be great! (Particularly "Echo Client/Server"
"Producer/Consumer Threads" "Regular Expression Matching" - suggestions
can be sent to the Shootout mailing list or direct to the Shootout
author.)


> Try --enable-jit, it should be reliable in Smalltalk 2.1e at least
Are there other configure options Brent should enable to show GST in
the best light?

Is there a faster way to startup the image? We seem to GC even before
hello world?

address@hidden smalltalk-2.1.8 # gst hello.st
"Scavenging... 17% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 18% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 29% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 53% reclaimed, done"
"Global garbage collection... done"
hello world



        
                
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