Re: Speed of big cats.
Re: Speed of big cats.
- Subject: Re: Speed of big cats.
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:16:05 +0200
I proposed a short script to show whether Panther is faster than Tiger.
It would be good if we had more replies from Panther users. And if
you run Jaguar, you *have* to run the test also, so far we got only
one Jaguar.
I recall the instructions.
In Smile run the following block (write the three lines in a New text
window, select all and press the Enter key):
chrono
beep
chrono
The result goes to the Console. Do it 5 times, keep the smallest of
the 5 times you got. Send it to me, and tell me your OS
(Tiger/Panther/Jaguar), your chip (G3/G4/G5), tell me your Hz (550
MHz, 2 GHz, etc), and tell me how many Scripting Additions you have
installed, including those in System/Library [2].
This should evaluate the time to call an osax.
Do the same for:
chrono
do shell script ""
chrono
This should evaluate the time for do shell script.
Finally, the results you would send me should look like: 4 lines
about your configuration, then two lines with the two results. If you
format them so it'll be faster to process them.
Panther
G3
900 Mhz
23 osax
beep 0.004401999991
do shell script 0.012987000053
I'll publish the results here, but I think I won't publish them more
widely, because I'm afraid it's no good news for our platform.
Thanks,
Emmanuel
[1] Smile is the best way of timing, because it has a timing function
that you can call without calling an osax. You may want to run the
"chrono" function alone: on my 900 MHz it runs in less than 1/2 ms.
Unfortunately, the times we shall measure in this test are way larger.
Download Smile regular edition for free at:
<http://www.satimage-software.com/en/downloads_smile.html>
[2] The following script returns the total number of Scripting
Additions installed in your machine:
(count (list folder (path to scripting additions from system domain)
without invisibles) & (list folder (path to scripting additions from
local domain) without invisibles) & (list folder (path to scripting
additions from user domain) without invisibles))
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