Ciao Giorgio,

 

vedo che sei sempre sulla braccia; perché non ci sentiamo per mettere insieme 
due vecchiaie?

 

Lorenzo

 

Da: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] Per conto di 
giorgio ferraris
Inviato: sabato 31 agosto 2019 17:48
A: Any question about pharo is welcome
Oggetto: Re: [Pharo-users] VW vs Pharo Performance

 

hello, 

 

Test seems old, both virtual machines (VW and Pharo) have upgraded in the 
meantime. 

VW has always been faster that Pharo for what I know, up to recent time. 
Recently Pharo changed the vm technology so now it should be much faster, but I 
don'r know is faster that VW , so it would be nice to have a up to date 
comparison.

Related to Matrix, this is a nice way to have many smalltalk images running in 
parallel, but it doesn't seems the case of this test. It requires a specific 
way of writing the code, it is not as automatic as  defining a piece of code 
"parallel". The thread model of VW and Pharo are still the same, green thread 
and (almost) single core systems 

 

ciao

 

giorgio

 

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 2:37 PM Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:



> On 31 Aug 2019, at 13:27, Richard Kenneth Eng <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/vw-pharo.html
>  
> 
> Is VisualWorks really faster than Pharo? Why???

The Pharo code is single threaded, single core, while the VW code uses 
something called MatriX.VirtualMachines to create workers that run on multiple 
cores.

Presumably that makes a huge difference.

Also, such parallelism is easy for benchmarks that can be split in independent 
tasks, real world code is a completely different story.

Basically, this is not the same code that is being compared.



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