This is a [cvs] module of the [tcllib] [sourceforge] project. Tclbench is a set of tools to compare performances between different [Tcl] and/or [Tk] versions. '''SYNOPSIS''' runbench.tcl ?-option value ...? ?file ...? '''DESCRIPTION''' The runbench.tcl application provides the overall management for the execution of bench�� marks. If no specific benchmark files are provided on the command line itself the application will use all directory containing the application itself. If files are provided all files matching the glob pattern *tk* are assumed to be benchmarks for the Tk toolkit. The following options are recognized by the application: -help: Causes the application to print a list of the recognized option plus short explanations of their meaning -errors: Takes a boolean value (0 or 1). True means that errors are thrown, else they are ignored. -iterations: The value of this option is a positive integer number and declares how often the body of benchmarks should be executed to get accurate timing results. This is a global maximum value which can be overidden by the individual benchmarks. -minversion: Declares the minimum version of tcl interpreters the application is allowed to use in the benchmarking. -maxversion: Declares the maximum version of tcl interpreters the application is allowed to use in the benchmarking. -rmatch: Restricts the benchmarking to benchmarks whose description matches the regexp pattern specified as the value of this option. If both -match and -rmatch are specified benchmarks have to fulfill both conditions to be executed. -match: Restricts the benchmarking to benchmarks whose description matches the glob pattern specified as the value of this option. If both -match and -rmatch are specified benchmarks have to fulfill both conditions to be executed. -normalize: Takes a version number as value and causes the application to normalize the timing values to the value of the given version. -notcl: Forces the application to skip all tcl related benchmarks. Takes no additional value. -notk: Forces the application to skip all tk related benchmarks. Takes no additional value. -output: Declares the style to use when generating the output for the benchmarks. Accepts text, csv and list. text is the default. -paths: Accepts a list of paths to search for tcl interpreters. If no paths are specified the paths in the environment variable PATH are used. -verbose: Activates the output of interim status info. Takes no additional value ---- [Kroc] - 23/06/2004 : I've done a TclBench.kit (v 1.15) to test Tclkit performance. It includes [Tcllib] 1.6.1 and [Tclx] 8.4 for linux and win32 but it should work on any platform. '''DOWNLOAD''' http://www.kroc.tk/tclkit/TclBench_1.15.2.kit '''SYNOPSIS''' TclBench.kit ?-option value ...? ?file ...? '''DESCRIPTION''' Similar to '''runbench.tcl''' above, except: -paths: looks for [tclkit] interpreters too. -output: added file style to output results to benchmark.txt instead of stdout. '''Example of use''' I compared two recents 8.4.6 [Tclkit] versions, a standard and an '''upx''' one, and an older 8.4.0. The bench were launched on three differents computers, running nothing else. The command used was: TclBench_1.15.2.kit -verbose -paths ./ -output file * Laptop with Crusoe 600 MHz processor, 192 Mb RAM running linux 2.6.6 (full results here [http://www.kroc.tk/fichiers/TclBench_linux_result.txt]) : TCL tests : TK tests : Total : Diff. : Tclkit 8.4.0 -> 08 min 48 sec 00 min 41 sec 10 min 12 sec + 24 % Tclkit 8.4.6 -> 07 min 33 sec 00 min 40 sec 08 min 13 sec + 0 % Tclkit 8.4.6 upx -> 09 min 03 sec 02 min 36 sec 11 min 39 sec + 42 % * PC with Celeron 600 MHz processor, 128 Mb RAM running Windows 98 SE (full results here [http://www.kroc.tk/fichiers/TclBench_win98se_result.txt]) : TCL tests : TK tests : Total : Diff. : Tclkit 8.4.0 -> 08 min 01 sec 01 min 35 sec 09 min 36 sec + 6 % Tclkit 8.4.6 -> 07 min 32 sec 01 min 31 sec 09 min 03 sec + 0 % Tclkit 8.4.6 upx -> 10 min 06 sec 05 min 32 sec 15 min 38 sec + 72 % * PC with Celeron 2400 MHz processor, 512 Mb RAM running Windows XP Family (full results here [http://www.kroc.tk/fichiers/TclBench_winXP_result.txt]) : TCL tests : TK tests : Total : Diff. : Tclkit 8.4.0 -> 06 min 16 sec 01 min 03 sec 07 min 19 sec + 33 % Tclkit 8.4.6 -> 04 min 31 sec 01 min 00 sec 05 min 31 sec + 0 % Tclkit 8.4.6 upx -> 05 min 05 sec 02 min 04 sec 07 min 09 sec + 30 % First thing: a recent [Tclkit] version is always fastest than an older one, whatever platform and computer running it. So we could say [TCT] do their job ;^) [jcw] explained me '''upx''' results are bad because it is slower on startup. Anyway, the smaller the computer is, the slower '''upx''' was compared to standard [Tclkit]. ---- [category package] | [category performance]