Re: Jeff Gonis is now a build.squeak.org user

> Hi Everyone,
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> As Frank mentioned, I am indeed interested in starting to get quantified
> performance data up and being logged for Squeak on a regular basis.  The
> motivation for this comes from visiting the site arewefastyet.com where
> Mozilla logs the Javascript performance of Firefox, and also from listening
> to a talk by Lars Bak, who worked on the Self VM and V8. He stated that one
> of the first things he does for any of his VM projects is to create a
> comprehensive set of performance benchmarks that is updated with every
> commit, because otherwise it is too easy for performance regressions to
> sneak in while development is occuring.
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> My hope is that by offering continuous feedback about the performance of
> Squeak, it will help provide a bit of a catalyst for anyone who is
> interested to go ahead and try to chip away at the performance of image or
> VM code. It might also help people understand Squeak's standing in the
> performance realm, relative to other languages.
>
> I figure that I'll throw my goals out there, but I must caution that I have
> never worked with Jenkins before, so I will have some learning ramp up time
> before results start showing up:
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> - Get the performance plugin logging a simple dummy file written out by
> Squeak using the CI machinery.
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> - Use one of the tests that I have ported from the "Benchmarks Shoot-out
> game" to start getting a "real" number out and updating regularly, with a
> nice graph showing progress
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> - Get all of the benchmarks from the "Benchmarks Shoot-out game" ported and
> running in squeak to give an somewhat healthy spread of code.
>
> - Get benchmarks for some other areas up and running.  My inital thoughts
> would be to have some drawing benchmarks, so that I can quantify the
> performance of VPRI's Gezira graphics library vs Balloon/FormCanvas.
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> Stretch goals:
> - Get benchmarks for other critical parts of the system, maybe stream
> benchmarks so if we adopt Xtreams or something else we can quantify the
> impact of that, maybe some parsing benchmarks for XML, etc.
> - Get some benchmarks from Octane and other suites ported over
> - Have the server run the benchmarks for another language such as Python, or
> Ruby, or maybe Javascript so we can chart Squeak's progress against them
> - Make some contributions to Squeak to speed some of these benchmarks up!
>
> Anyway, if anyone has some input or suggestions I would be grateful to
> receive them. If you think that my plan is sound, I would love to hear that
> as well.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Jeff!
>
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Frank Shearar <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
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>> Jeff's interested in answering "How fast is Squeak today?" letting us
>> view trends on performance, not just on build times.
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>> He's going to be taking the Performance plugin for a spin. This plugin
>> renders JMeter format output.
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>> frank
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