GFORTH BENCHMARK SUITE RESULTS
All with PowerMac G3/400, 50 MHz bus, 128 MB RAM, 2MB, 200 MHz backside
  cache, Mac OS X Public Beta (Darwin 1.3).
All with gcc -O3, version 2.95.2.
Pfe-0.30.96 with regs, next unrolled, static libraries.
Gforth-0.5.0 with regs, direct threaded.

Pfe:
pfe -q -y siev.fs  4.31s user 0.09s system 98% cpu 4.464 total
pfe -q -y bubble.fs  4.92s user 0.11s system 96% cpu 5.203 total
pfe -q -y matrix.fs  3.69s user 0.08s system 94% cpu 3.998 total
pfe -q -y fib.fs  5.68s user 0.10s system 98% cpu 5.868 total

^Forth (pfe), extra regs:  The "c" cases are hand-coded C, but with
  ^Forth DO ... LOOPs for benchmark iteration in some cases.  The extra
  regs include the top DO ... LOOP parameters.
gfbench -q -y -e sieve-main  1.16s user 0.09s system 83% cpu 1.500 total
gfbench -q -y -e csieve-main  0.30s user 0.09s system 87% cpu 0.443 total
gfbench -q -y -e bubble-main  2.19s user 0.10s system 95% cpu 2.392 total
gfbench -q -y -e cbubble-main  0.45s user 0.08s system 91% cpu 0.582 total
gfbench -q -y -e matrix-main  1.23s user 0.11s system 94% cpu 1.416 total
gfbench -q -y -e cmatrix-main1  0.39s user 0.10s system 86% cpu 0.564 total
gfbench -q -y -e cmatrix-main2  0.40s user 0.09s system 87% cpu 0.558 total
gfbench -q -y -e fib-main  2.28s user 0.10s system 95% cpu 2.482 total
gfbench -q -y -e cfib-main  1.31s user 0.09s system 93% cpu 1.492 total

^Forth (pfe), no extra regs:  The "c" cases are hand-coded C, but with
  ^Forth DO ... LOOPs for benchmark iteration in some cases.
gfbench -q -y -e sieve-main  1.46s user 0.08s system 98% cpu 1.559 total
gfbench -q -y -e csieve-main  0.32s user 0.07s system 92% cpu 0.422 total
gfbench -q -y -e bubble-main  2.28s user 0.10s system 96% cpu 2.469 total
gfbench -q -y -e cbubble-main  0.66s user 0.07s system 92% cpu 0.786 total
gfbench -q -y -e matrix-main  1.49s user 0.12s system 97% cpu 1.654 total
gfbench -q -y -e cmatrix-main1  0.40s user 0.09s system 88% cpu 0.556 total
gfbench -q -y -e cmatrix-main2  0.38s user 0.11s system 75% cpu 0.653 total
gfbench -q -y -e fib-main  2.37s user 0.12s system 97% cpu 2.548 total
gfbench -q -y -e cfib-main  1.31s user 0.08s system 93% cpu 1.494 total


Gforth:
./gforth-fast --die-on-signal -p  siev.fs -e main bye
  2.47s user 0.07s system 96% cpu 2.626 total
./gforth-fast --die-on-signal -p  bubble.fs -e main bye
  2.81s user 0.07s system 96% cpu 2.995 total
./gforth-fast --die-on-signal -p  -m 160000 matrix.fs -e main bye
  1.93s user 0.05s system 97% cpu 2.022 total
./gforth-fast --die-on-signal -p  fib.fs -e main bye
  3.16s user 0.06s system 99% cpu 3.231 total

david.n.williams@umich.edu
31-Aug-01