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From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: performance question about ST80 v2.5 on MacII
Message-ID: <10221@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 89 00:31:04 GMT
Reply-To: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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>[Slowdown more noticable on the Mac than the Sun]

Just for general entertainment, the following is part of a table from
``ParcPlace Newsletter, Autumn 1989, number 4.  The article is on
Objectworkds for Smalltalk-80.

	;-D on  ( Lies, damn lies, statistics, benchmarks, ... )  Pardo

Processor	Machine			ST version	Performacne
----------------------------------------------------------------------
SPARC		Sun SPARCstation 330		2.5	600
SPARC		Sun SPARCstation 1		2.5	465
68030		Sun 3/4700			2.5	335
MIPS		DECstation 3100			2.5	328
SPARC		Sun 4/110			2.5	293
MIPS		DECstation 2100			2.5	265
80386		Sun386i				2.5	200
68020		Apollo DN4500			2.3	147
68000		Macintosh II-cx			2.5	120
80386		IBM PS/2 Model 70 (20Mhz)	2.5	110
68020		Sun 3/50			2.5	104
68020		Apollo DN580 Turbo		2.3	 85
68000		Macintosh SE			2.5	 19

[There's more, I got tired of typing]

Note: Benchmark statistics are approximate.  They vary depdending on
[...] A performacne level of roughly 100 is considered to give a user
full interactive ``feel.''
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