LinuxPPC G4 with AltiVec technology and 733MHz From version 5.6.0308 to 5.y (was compiled with YDL 4.0) From version 5.5.0202 to 5.6.0111 (was compiled against YDL 2.3) 5.6 === 5.6.0818 RTÆA once string with new visitors for type checking (after bootstrap): 383.706u 11.622s 7:00.26 94.0% 0+0k 0+0io 10pf+0w 5.6.0818 RTÆA once string with new visitors for type checking (before bootstrap): 387.214u 11.888s 7:05.22 93.8% 0+0k 0+0io 13pf+0w 5.6.0803 RTEA once string: 393.428u 12.685s 7:45.14 87.3% 0+0k 0+0io 293pf+0w 388.610u 11.908s 7:05.40 94.1% 0+0k 0+0io 26pf+0w 389.133u 11.942s 7:04.50 94.4% 0+0k 0+0io 11pf+0w 5.6.0803 RTEA non-once string: 395.160u 11.684s 7:15.04 93.5% 0+0k 0+0io 52pf+0w 5.6.0723 RTEA: 395.856u 12.398s 7:51.97 86.4% 0+0k 0+0io 320pf+0w 395.809u 11.721s 7:19.73 92.6% 0+0k 0+0io 8pf+0w 392.691u 11.923s 7:16.22 92.7% 0+0k 0+0io 11pf+0w 5.6.0721 RTEA with once string optimization on byte_code cluster: 387.526u 11.841s 7:14.32 91.9% 0+0k 0+0io 13pf+0w 387.606u 11.726s 7:15.28 91.7% 0+0k 0+0io 14pf+0w 5.6.0712 RTEA: 392.667u 11.776s 7:21.48 91.6% 0+0k 0+0io 11pf+0w 396.443u 11.990s 7:23.15 92.1% 0+0k 0+0io 11pf+0w 392.202u 11.738s 7:19.83 91.8% 0+0k 0+0io 14pf+0w 5.6.0708 RTEA: 401.316u 12.231s 7:54.50 87.1% 0+0k 0+0io 270pf+0w 393.692u 11.992s 7:22.00 91.7% 0+0k 0+0io 202pf+0w 398.888u 11.485s 7:36.10 89.9% 0+0k 0+0io 15pf+0w 399.530u 11.661s 7:25.58 92.2% 0+0k 0+0io 16pf+0w 5.6.0705 RTEA (Why is it faster? Most likely because some changes in the compiler/libraries, but not because of something we have done although this version had the changes from Alexander about new once code generation): 398.012u 11.727s 7:22.51 92.5% 0+0k 0+0io 4pf+0w 398.894u 11.741s 7:22.91 92.7% 0+0k 0+0io 4pf+0w 5.6.0702 RTEA: 417.383u 12.229s 8:02.62 89.0% 0+0k 0+0io 248pf+0w 414.744u 12.338s 8:17.94 85.7% 0+0k 0+0io 117pf+0w 415.200u 11.733s 7:45.17 91.7% 0+0k 0+0io 11pf+0w 415.422u 11.890s 7:54.76 90.0% 0+0k 0+0io 9pf+0w 5.6.0701 RTEA: 413.024u 12.374s 8:10.00 86.8% 0+0k 0+0io 311pf+0w 417.783u 11.699s 7:47.88 91.7% 0+0k 0+0io 9pf+0w 417.710u 11.803s 7:45.14 92.3% 0+0k 0+0io 8pf+0w 5.6.0624 RTEA without -fPIC with new server: 405.886u 11.601s 7:28.27 93.1% 0+0k 0+0io 8pf+0w 403.831u 11.409s 7:22.12 93.9% 0+0k 0+0io 9pf+0w 5.6.0623 RTEA without -fPIC with Alex changes: 396.803u 11.761s 7:18.61 93.1% 0+0k 0+0io 9pf+0w 397.188u 11.544s 7:17.74 93.3% 0+0k 0+0io 9pf+0w 5.6.0622 RTEA with -fPIC: 492.059u 11.833s 8:49.75 95.1% 0+0k 0+0io 8pf+0w 5.6.0610 RTEA without -fPIC: 394.366u 11.385s 7:17.98 92.6% 0+0k 0+0io 9pf+0w 393.554u 11.454s 7:16.45 92.7% 0+0k 0+0io 9pf+0w 5.6.0610 RTEA with -fPIC: 488.210u 12.289s 9:15.70 90.0% 0+0k 0+0io 285pf+0w 5.6.0524 RTEA with -fPIC: 490.756u 11.655s 8:49.20 94.9% 0+0k 0+0io 42pf+0w 487.066u 11.546s 8:44.04 95.1% 0+0k 0+0io 4pf+0w Below are compiled without -fPIC option: 5.6.0308 RTEA: 374.793u 11.085s 6:38.56 96.8% 0+0k 0+0io 8pf+0w 374.360u 11.098s 6:40.70 96.1% 0+0k 0+0io 7pf+0w 374.255u 10.950s 6:40.28 96.2% 0+0k 0+0io 5pf+0w 5.6.0111 RTEA: 406.710u 7.930s 7:24.17 93.3% 0+0k 0+0io 1809pf+0w 408.220u 8.050s 7:18.38 94.9% 0+0k 0+0io 1820pf+0w 408.200u 7.810s 7:17.76 95.0% 0+0k 0+0io 1821pf+0w 407.170u 7.970s 7:46.77 88.9% 0+0k 0+0io 2008pf+0w 407.820u 8.410s 7:20.52 94.4% 0+0k 0+0io 1823pf+0w 409.040u 7.650s 7:19.94 94.7% 0+0k 0+0io 1824pf+0w 5.5 === 5.5.0621 RTEA: 407.150u 7.630s 7:13.68 95.6% 0+0k 0+0io 1813pf+0w 412.270u 7.980s 7:15.65 96.4% 0+0k 0+0io 3127pf+0w 406.210u 8.060s 7:17.36 94.7% 0+0k 0+0io 1817pf+0w 5.5.0616 RTEA: 402.750u 8.080s 7:15.35 94.3% 0+0k 0+0io 1843pf+0w 403.240u 8.060s 7:13.88 94.7% 0+0k 0+0io 1793pf+0w 5.5.0603 RTEA: 408.460u 8.560s 7:48.52 89.0% 0+0k 0+0io 3199pf+0w 5.5.0421 RTEA: 399.030u 8.410s 7:11.62 94.3% 0+0k 0+0io 2074pf+0w 399.070u 7.430s 7:07.96 94.9% 0+0k 0+0io 1780pf+0w 5.5.0406 RTEA (New version with improved expanded support): 404.990u 7.860s 7:34.14 90.9% 0+0k 0+0io 2097pf+0w 406.200u 7.710s 7:19.80 94.1% 0+0k 0+0io 2097pf+0w 405.550u 7.880s 7:16.05 94.8% 0+0k 0+0io 2084pf+0w 405.140u 7.970s 7:15.31 94.9% 0+0k 0+0io 2085pf+0w 5.5.0308 RTEA: 404.610u 7.590s 7:15.70 94.6% 0+0k 0+0io 2095pf+0w 404.470u 7.740s 7:14.97 94.7% 0+0k 0+0io 2048pf+0w 5.5.0202 RTEA: 404.490u 8.410s 7:35.85 90.5% 0+0k 0+0io 2081pf+0w