VW Benchmarks

Cincom has been telling customers that 5i is faster - this page proves it! The following benchmarks were run on a 500 Mhz pentium III with 256MB of RAM, running Windows ME. The second set below is for Linux (RedHat 7.0 on a PII 400 Mhz system).

The code for these tests is in the Public PostgreSQL Repository. Just load VRAllGoodies, and then pull down the tools menu on the launcher - the interface to the tests is there. To run the Opentalk, DST, or Socket tests, you'll need to set up a second image properly, and get the DST server configured. You can set up the socket and Opentalk information from the tool itself. Send questions to James Robertson. Feel more than free to port these tests to other dialects of Smalltalk; I would appreciate hearing about the efforts though.

Web Toolkit Benchmarks

1. Towers Of Hanoi - 22
2. Proxy Test - 100,000 repetitions of a #become: on a 100 element collection into a 1000 element collection
3. Socket Test - 1000 sends of a string to a server, with a simple string return from the server
4. Proxy Message Test (DNU) - 100,000 messages sent to an object that handles them via a #doesNotUnderstand: handler which then constructs and sends a message via #perform:
5. DST Message Test - 1000 sends of an Employee Object from the client to the server
6. Opentalk Message Test - 1000 sends of an Employee Object from the client to the server.
7. Polymorphic send test - uses 5 unrelated classes with a common interface. Stick 500 of them in a collection, and iterate, sending the common message to each. Repeated 10,000 times.
8. Database Query Test - repeated 100 times - get all entries in the EMP table (from the sample Oracle Database)
9. Database Insert Test - repeated 100 times - do an insert into the EMP table of a newly created EMP object (sample Oracle Database)
10. Stream Read Test - 100,000 repetitions - reading a stream using #upTo: and #upToAll:
11. Stream Write Test - 100,000 repetitions - writing a long string and ashort string to a stream, followed by cr's.
12. Allocation Speed Test - 100,000 repetitions of the creation of 10 new Array objects, followed by an incremental GC at each step.
13. Array Write Test - 1,000,000 iterations of writes into the first 10 positions of an Array object
14. Dictionary Write Test - 10,000 iterations of writing 10 keys and values into an IdentityDictionary
15. Floating Math Test - Using Floating point numbers, 300,000 repetitons (10 times each time through) of this calculation: e := (e * a + b) * c + d.
16. Fixed Point Math Test - Using Fixed Point numbers, 300,000 repetitons (10 times each time through) of this calculation: e := (e * a + b) * c + d.
17. Integer Math Test - Using integral numbers, 300,000 repetitons (10 times each time through) of this calculation: e := (e * a + b) * c + d.
18. OrderedCollection Iteration Test - Iterating over a 10 element collection, repeated 100,000 times
19. OrderedCollection Write Test - Using a 10 element collection, write an object into it 10 times, repeat 100,000 times
20. String Compare Test - Compares 'this is a test of a string compare of two long strings' to 'this is a test of a string compare of two long strings' 100,000 times.

Note - Opentalk is faster than DST, even though the tests below use IDL. I3 is a slower. I did not run Opentalk tests in 5i.2 - the protocol was fairly different at that early stage.

The results: