john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) (06/10/91)
I ran the Richards benchmark on a 16Mhz 386sx with Borland's C++ 2.0 and Smalltalk-80 rel 4. The BC++ average was about 8.1 seconds (run under DOS). The ST-80 average was about 29.9 seconds (run under Windows 3.0). The Smalltalk times showed significantly more variation (6 seconds) than the BC++ times. I suppose that this is due to Windows fooling around in the background. Thus, the Smalltalk times are about 3.7 times slower. However the Smalltalk program was run under Windows and I expect that that slows things down some even without writing to the screen. I think that the times for ST-80 ver 2.4 will be a good deal slower than ver 4.0 and should not be used as a true benchmark. I'd be interested in other benchmarks and other 'Richards' results. -- John Baima john@utafll.uta.edu