Initial Smalltalk execution time

[Mark Roos]

Now that the core works I thought I would take a quick look at the 
execution speed.  For this I
executed the same code in our current environment (OS/2 and a mid 90's 
Smalltalk) and again using
our invokeDynamic based vm translation.  The code gets a string, parses in 
into commands and
generates a large string in response.  For us this is a typical socket 
request/response.

On our current environment the first run takes 65ms and subsequent runs 
42ms. 

Caveat,  this is not apples and apples at the execution level but is 
apples and apples at the
user level which is where we care.  And a reminder is that we are 
translating the Smalltalk bytecodes
to jvm codes at runtime.  Also we are translating about 150 methods to do 
this benchmark.

For the jsr292 version the first run is 1 sec,  the next 10 are around 
45ms then after executing
it 100x the next 10 runs average 12ms. 

Very promising given that we have not done any optimizing.

mark
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