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 benchmarks. 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]]]