Ok, what about benchmarks

[Darold Higa]

OK, with all of this being thrown around about the different environments and 
languages, has anyone done an informal performance benchmark?

I ran my CasinoWorld simulation (the one from Luna and Perrone) using Swarm 
1.4/Objective-C and got about 10x performance going from Windows 98 to Windows 
NT/2000 and then another 10x Windows NT to Redhat (on roughly the same 
hardware).  This fact prompted my co-author Michael Harrington, to move from a 
Win2k environment to Redhat.

The LinuxPPC implementation was slightly slower than Redhat.  The only 
subjective proof I have that there was rough hardware parity was that between 
the mac running under MacOS9 and wintel hardware running under Win98, the mac 
won running address@hidden (Probably not a good comparison, but the only cross 
platform benchmark I had handy).

I didn't record the simulation times back then, I really should have.

I believe that the hardware used (if I recall correctly) was a G3 @ 300MHz, an 
Athlon (SlotA) @600MHz.  There might have been a PIII @ 700 somewhere in the 
mix as well.

Darold Higa

Darold Higa


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