benchmark

I have always been interested in efficiency and performance. So much, in fact, that when I finished installing three different trunk (latest source code) builds of Firefox (3.5.6, 3.6, and 3.7), I just had to compare their JavaScript performance with that of Chromium. I have heard that the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine got some performance boosts [...]

Yesterday, while going compile-crazy and whatnot, I discovered a switch for GNU Make. The -j switch (or –jobs) allows you to have Make run multiple jobs on the same task, improving compile time. I wanted to see just how fast it was, so I did some tests.
The Tests
In these tests, I compiled Ruby’s SVN trunk, [...]