v5 benchmark

Compare to what?

The most comprehensive data on the performance of Som system is the Birthday benmark.  It consists of

som version: v1, v2, v15, v18, v24, v3, v31, v4, v41
and small programs:
  bubble, matmul, queen, queen2, quick

the measurements include: noi and runtime on Dell D500 (1.2 GHz, 1Gbytes)

(read som\birthday\doc\benchmark.txt)

To benchmark v5, all these programs can be used. 
To measure more realistic situations, larger programs should be included.  This detailed measurement can be done with v4 and v41 (v42) representing the current-best against the newest (v5).

Large programs are:
  aes4, parser, lexer (as v4.1 onward, lex is in vm), and pgen

The last three have input file so the run-time may not reflex vm performance due to i/o bound.


27 Oct 2009
