Benchmarking Smalltalk on JVM

[Mark Roos]

This may be a little much to ask but...   These bytecodes take about 20ns 
per cycle to run on
my 2.8 GHz mac using jdk8-B23 without TieredCompile.  Does this seem 
reasonable given the number of indy calls?
The GWT depth on the method sends is 1

thanks
mark

   LABEL              <56>  LABEL 1 
                          <56>  aload 4 
                          <58>  aload 3 
                          <59>  astore 1 
                          <60>  aload 1 
   INDY (asm)        <61>  ["at:"] RtCallSite, (6) {RtTestCases class 
benchmarkLoop, 19} 
                          <66>  astore 1 
                          <67>  aload 1 
                          <68>  astore 5 
   INDY (asm)        <70>  ["41"] ConstantCallSite, (6) {dummy} 
                          <75>  aload 4 
                          <77>  astore 1 
                          <78>  aload 1 
   INDY (asm)        <79>  ["increment:"] RtCallSite, (6) {RtTestCases 
class benchmarkLoop, 23} 
                          <84>  astore 1 
   LABEL              <85>  LABEL 0 
                          <85>  aload 4 
                          <87>  astore 1 
   INDY (asm)        <88>  ["41000000"] ConstantCallSite, (6) {dummy} 
                          <93>  aload 1 
   INDY (asm)        <94>  ["<="] RtCallSite, (6) {RtTestCases class 
benchmarkLoop, 24} 
                          <99>  astore 1 
                         <100>  aload 1 
                         <101>  getstatic ri/core/rtalk/RtObject _true 
Lri/core/rtalk/RtObject; 
   JUMP               <104>  if_acmpeq LABEL 1 
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