The programs are from the SPEC Client98 benchmark suite, but the test runs were *not* SPEC compliant (no HTTP-server, only 10 runs). Configuration: Pentium 130 (no 2-nd level cache) gcc 2.95 Options: -ss 1M -mx 40M seconds needed for 10 runs (real): check mtrt jess compress db mpegaudio jack javac SUN 0.24 53.5 18.2 89.6 12.2 93.1 49.5 14.47 jit3 48.4 8.8 19.1 6.2 41.3 67.9 14.18 intrp 0.65 529.9 192.5 1035.1 85.8 803.4 442.1 141.5 no_quick 0.60 463.2 168.7 943.5 78.3 707.6 418.5 128.6 quick 0.35 163.6 51.4 282.5 26.7 358.5 156.8 42.9 relative to SUN: check mtrt jess compress db mpegaudio jack javac SUN 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 jit3 0.9 0.48 0.21 0.51 0.44 1.37 0.98 intrp 2.71 9.9 10.58 11.6 7.03 8.63 8.93 9.78 no_quick 2.5 8.66 9.27 10.58 6.42 7.6 8.45 8.89 quick 1.46 3.06 2.82 3.17 2.19 3.85 3.17 2.96 relative to intrp: check mtrt jess compress db mpegaudio jack javac SUN 0.37 0.1 0.09 0.09 0.14 0.12 0.11 0.1 jit3 0.09 0.05 0.02 0.07 0.05 0.15 0.1 intrp 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 no_quick 0.92 0.87 0.88 0.91 0.91 0.88 0.95 0.91 quick 0.54 0.31 0.27 0.27 0.31 0.45 0.35 0.3 relative to quick: check mtrt jess compress db mpegaudio jack javac SUN 0.69 0.33 0.35 0.32 0.46 0.26 0.32 0.34 jit3 0.3 0.17 0.07 0.23 0.12 0.43 0.33 intrp 1.86 3.24 3.75 3.66 3.21 2.24 2.82 3.3 no_quick 1.71 2.83 3.28 3.34 2.93 1.97 2.67 3.0 quick 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0