Re: [Squeak-VMdev] Unix sources in SF/CVS?

[Ian P. <ian...@in...>]

Tim,

> Just to keep y'all up to date, the Acorn has no performance change at
> all on the 'Smalltalk macroBenchmarks' when using the crosby cache
> stuff. It does however seem to require a bunch more memory to achieve
> that same performance....

Want to send me the change set?  I'll file it in, rebuild and run the
benchmarks.

From what I remember of his posts he's talking about subtle effects (cache
line invalidation cost) that are rather specific to his processor (some
flavour of pentium clone) -- unless I'm reading _completely_ the wrong
thread?

This is pretty inspirational stuff!

Unfortunately, what it inspires is a resounding "who the f**k cares?".  
His cpu might have a broken cache architecture, mine doesn't.  (And given
your results it would seem the ARM doesn't either.)

Cheers,

Ian