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From: marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: About PP-80 R4...
Message-ID: <91.146.12:14:27@feki.toppoint.de>
Date: 26 May 91 10:14:27 GMT
Organization: private unix-system
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First of all, I would like to get some benchmark result of ST80-R4
implementations. Here are my numbers for a PC-386/33 MHz with Cache,
8MB-RAM and VGA-card (800x600, 16 colors, TSENG 4000) under Windows 3.0
with static-swapfile:


System Benchmarks (Rates)
-------------------------

Individual benchmark results (5 iterations):

Benchmark        	Minimum	Maximum	Median 
---------        	-------	-------	------ 

AllCallsOn       	86.2482	93.6524	91.047 
AllImplementors  	131.313	168.831	131.579
ClassOrganizer   	315.104	440.0  	367.781
Compiler         	203.097	239.014	225.48 
Decompiler       	225.455	375.758	322.078
Inspect          	330.909	554.878	551.515
KeyboardLookAhead	220.779	518.293	309.091
KeyboardSingle   	330.804	396.364	360.927
PrintDefinition  	257.576	258.359	257.576
PrintHierarchy   	456.621	909.091	606.061
TextDisplay      	232.727	259.109	233.151
TextEditing      	256.068	274.382	264.909
TextFormatting   	696.97 	1045.45	696.97 
TextScanning     	94.5455	94.8328	94.5455

Benchmark suite results (5 iterations):

Rating Type	Minimum	Maximum	Median 
-----------	-------	-------	------ 

H-Mean     	219.598	228.081	223.089

And then there're some bugs(?) I would like to mention...

a)  file-list

 Try to use the file-list utility, select a volume different to the
standard one. In the middle view you see the contents of the selected
directory. Try to make a new directory there with "make directory" and
wonderful - it's added to the view. Use another file-list to verify the
result -- the new directory is not there! The new directory was created,
but always in the directory, where st80.exe is --- grrrrrrr! The middle
view sometimes doesn't get the info from the upper view - the actual
path. How can one correct this?

b) Hierarchy Category Browser from System Full Browser (Objectkit ST)

 Start the "System Full Browser", select "spawn hierarchy" and one can
get an instance of "**Hierarchy ** Category Browser". Inside this new
browser select a method and wait for the source-code of this method  --
you won't get it, because nothing happens. By the way: it works
wonderful from the normal "System Browser". How can one correct this?


 Greetings,

	 Marten

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