KFORTH, PFE, GFORTH BENCHMARKS ON A MACOSX/PPC SYSTEM

The system is Mac OS X 10.4.6 dual-G4 1.42 GHz, 2MB L3 cache per
processor, 512 MB RAM.

Here, pfe-0.33.60 is built with:
./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-regs=all --with-cflags=-DUNROLL_NEXT --with-opt=3

This defaults to dynamic libraries, which is about 5% slower on
this system.

user total summary
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kForth-fast   2.68  + 3.06  + 2.39  + 3.98  = 12.11
pfe           1.96  + 2.15  + 1.66  + 2.51  =  8.28
gforth-fast   0.712 + 0.935 + 0.484 + 0.898 =  3.029

kForth/pfe    = 12.11 / 8.28  = 1.46
kForth/gforth = 12.11 / 3.029 = 4.00
pfe/gforth    =  8.28 / 3.029 = 2.73

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[jost:src/kforth-1.4.x/bench] dnwills% kforth-fast
kForth v 1.4.0-fast      (Build: 2006-06-14)
Copyright (c) 1998--2006 Krishna Myneni
Contributions by: dpw gd mu bk abs tn cmb bg dnw
Provided under the GNU General Public License.

 ok
bye
Goodbye.
[jost:src/kforth-1.4.x/bench] dnwills% dobench-fast
Wed Jun 21 17:24:50 EDT 2006
USING KFORTH-FAST
SIEVE
Goodbye.
real         2.69
user         2.68
sys          0.00
BUBBLE-SORT
Goodbye.
real         3.07
user         3.06
sys          0.00
MATRIX-MULT
Goodbye.
real         2.40
user         2.39
sys          0.00
FIB
Goodbye.
real         3.99
user         3.98
sys          0.00
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[jost:~/pfe/bench] dnwills% pfe
\ Portable Forth Environment 0.33.60 (Nov 12 2005 08:40:05)
Copyright (C) Dirk Uwe Zoller 1993 - 1995.
Copyright (C) Tektronix, Inc. 1998 - 2003.
ANS/ffa ITC Forth - Please enter LICENSE and WARRANTY. 
Running on powerpc darwin8.3.0 - to quit say BYE. ok 
bye 
Goodbye!
[jost:~/pfe/bench] dnwills% dopfebench
Wed Jun 21 17:33:50 EDT 2006
USING PFE
SIEVE
real         1.97
user         1.96
sys          0.00
BUBBLE-SORT
"random" is redefined
real         2.16
user         2.15
sys          0.00
MATRIX-MULT
"random" is redefined
real         1.67
user         1.66
sys          0.00
FIB
real         2.52
user         2.51
sys          0.00
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[jost:local/src/gforth-0.6.2] dnwills% gforth-fast
Gforth 0.6.2, Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `license'
Type `bye' to exit
bye 
[jost:local/src/gforth-0.6.2] dnwills% make bench
cd engine && make gforth gforth-ditc gforth-fast gforth-itc 
make[1]: `gforth' is up to date.
make[1]: `gforth-ditc' is up to date.
make[1]: `gforth-fast' is up to date.
make[1]: `gforth-itc' is up to date.
cp -p engine/gforth-fast gforth-fast
cp -p kernl32b.fi kernl32b.fi~
cp -p kernl32b.fi- kernl32b.fi
cp -p gforth gforth~
cp -p engine/gforth gforth
cp -p engine/gforth-ditc gforth-ditc
Each benchmark takes about 30s on a 486-66 (gcc-2.6.3 -DFORCE_REG)
time ./gforth-fast --die-on-signal -p
  ".:/usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth:/usr/local/share/gforth/site
  -forth:/usr/local/lib/gforth/0.6.2:/usr/local/share/gforth/0.6.2
  :." siev.fs -e "main bye"
real    0m0.723s
user    0m0.712s
sys     0m0.009s
time ./gforth-fast --die-on-signal -p
  ".:/usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth:/usr/local/share/gforth/site
  -forth:/usr/local/lib/gforth/0.6.2:/usr/local/share/gforth/0.6.2
  :." bubble.fs -e "main bye"
redefined cell  redefined list  
real    0m0.946s
user    0m0.935s
sys     0m0.010s
time ./gforth-fast --die-on-signal -p
  ".:/usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth:/usr/local/share/gforth/site
  -forth:/usr/local/lib/gforth/0.6.2:/usr/local/share/gforth/0.6.2
  :." matrix.fs -e "main bye"
real    0m0.495s
user    0m0.484s
sys     0m0.010s
time ./gforth-fast --die-on-signal -p
  ".:/usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth:/usr/local/share/gforth/site
  -forth:/usr/local/lib/gforth/0.6.2:/usr/local/share/gforth/0.6.2
  :." fib.fs -e "main bye"
real    0m0.907s
user    0m0.898s
sys     0m0.010s
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