rontelta@swi.psy.uva.nl (Ronteltap Tamara) (06/17/91)
Hi, I'm new to Smalltalk. I've just bought a ST book to aquaint myself with OO programming (Savic). It looks like you there's a lot of productivity to be gained. Before I finish the book and start writing some programs myself. There's this paper I have write to on computer architecture: RISC versus CISC. (yeah, yeah, I know, boring and already decided, that's why I chose the subject) The paper is almost finished. I just need some performance figures for a Smalltalk benchmark "with many small objects" on RISC and CISC machines. I suppose SPARC and 80386 would be OK. I've read recent articles on the Richards (sp?) OS benchmark, but didn't have the presense of mind to save the articles. If I remember correctly, the numbers posted were from different Smalltalk versions. The optimizations in these (I believe 2.5 and 4.0) made a *lot* of difference. So, has anyone got some performance benchmark on a RISC and a CISC? Preferably not a micro benchmark and preferably using the same ST versions. If you can direct me to some (IEEE) paper on this, I would be very happy to. Bye for now, hope to talk some real ST later. Richard (rontelta@fwi.uva.nl)