Starting benchmarks with repetition count = 16000. 1000s time 1000s of itera- sec- iterations slop- tions onds per sec stones explanation 3808 0.57 6681 1.012227538543328 add integers 544 0.883 616 2.567006417516044 add floats 960 0.352 2727 3.092145949288807 access strings 320 0.441 726 2.061430632859204 create objects 160 0.428 374 3.493754913092847 copy objects 480 0.557 862 2.027669236455803 perform selectors 896 2.083 430 0.59412820968482 evaluate blocks 640 0.62863813191608 1017 1.833703341270762 geometric mean Benchmarks complete. Starting benchmarks with repetition count = 1. time in smop- seconds stones explanation 1.9 1.661578947368421 generating fractonaccis 0.269 4.17472118959108 generating primes* 0.371 2.940700808625337 generating and parsing streams 1.084 2.851476014760148 generating strings 342.754 0.00340477426959277 forming sets 1.043 4.92713326941515 sorting strings 1.743 3.21342512908778 sorcerer's apprentice* 2.00017324772032 1.177342534511969 geometric mean* Benchmarks complete. *** Caution *** 2 test of this benchmark (marked at '*') is intended to test the efficiency of recursively calling a block, that it isn't supported by this VM. So the result would be fairly pointless.