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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 19:36:17 -0700
From: Travis Griggs <tkc@3-cities.com>
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Michael Rueger wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just received a brand new shiny PowerMac 7600/120 with 48 MB,
> started VW 2.5 and ...
> 
> ... it just does about 600 % in the benchmarks :-((
> 
> I noticed large differences like
> 
> ArrayAt    2500
> ArrayAtPut  148 (no, this is not a typo!)
> 
> which are responsible for the low overall values.
> StringReplacing is a raging 94000.
> 
> Any explanations for this ?
> 
> Michael
> 

I do not believe the VM is PPC native, rather its written in 680K0 code, 
so that means double interpretation for your smalltalk code. 

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Travis Griggs
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(509) 943-4210
