For the last several months I've periodically run a small suite of benchmark tests on various versions of Rakudo and Parrot, just to see how performance is changing over time. I started this project in April, when I noticed that Parrot performance had substantially declined since January on several of my systems.
The latest results for Rakudo 2011.07 and Parrot 3.6.0 are now available on github: https://github.com/pmichaud/rpbench-results/blob/master/orange-x86_64-3521m-201107311811.txt https://github.com/pmichaud/rpbench-results/blob/master/plum-x86_64-2931m-201107310050.txt https://github.com/pmichaud/rpbench-results/blob/master/kiwi-x86_64-3496m-201107310641.txt https://github.com/pmichaud/rpbench-results/blob/master/kiwi-x86_64-7994m-201107302349.txt These are run on various machines I have available to me for testing, with a variety of processor and memory footprints (all are running Kubuntu 2011.04). We're currently using the 2011.01 / 3.0.0 release as a baseline for comparison. Lower numbers indicate better (faster) performance. The programs used to create these benchmark results are in http://github.com/pmichaud/rpbench . As of this morning I don't have any instructions written for using the suite, but will likely add some shortly. Pm _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
