[Amforth-devel] benchmarks ;=)

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

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Hi,

I just run a stupid benchmark with the fib word from the blocks
directory. 24 fib gives the biggest usable number (46368) on amforth.

Running a loop with 100 iterations took roughly 3'30 on an atmega32
at 16MHz. The sparring partner I choose is gforth (0.6.2, comes with
ubuntu) on my 2GHz P4 system. To balance the frequency difference,
gforth had to run 125 times the 100 loop. That took around 1'30.

What does it tell us? Well, nothing perhaps. Or that amforth executes
1 forth "instruction" where gforth has 2, scaled with cpu cycle clock.

Matthias
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