Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!parcplace!khaw
From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: performance question about ST80 v2.5 on MacII
Message-ID: <651@parcplace.com>
Date: 21 Dec 89 20:04:54 GMT
References: <10221@june.cs.washington.edu>
Organization: ParcPlace Systems, Mt. View, CA
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pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:

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

The Smalltalk-80 benchmarks are normalized to Dorado = 100.  The Xerox
Dorado was a microcoded 16-bit machine whose interactive Smalltalk
performance was one of the first to be considered "reasonably
responsive".  The published ParcPlace benchmarks are intended to
provide some idea how Smalltalk-80 on a particular machine stacks up
against the Dorado.

Your own subjective rating may vary, depending on host window system
performance, host graphics hardware performance, etc.
-- 
Mike Khaw
ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043
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