Performance

How fast is MINERVA?

This question makes sense only if asked in three parts:

1. How fast loads a MINERVA applet?
2. How fast executes a MINERVA application or applet?
3. How fast compiles MINERVA?

How fast loads a MINERVA applet?

Depends mainly on the bandwidth of your network. Guess about 80 seconds for an slow internet link via phone.

How fast executes a MINERVA application or applet?

Depends mainly on the speed of your Java language processor. Here is some data for the 'Mr P and Mr S' benchmark program.

MINERVA Execution Time 'Mr. P and Mr.S'

MINERVA	CPU	OS	Java VM	Wall Time (secs)
2.4	Intel P4 2.4	Linux 2.4	Sun JDK1.4.1	11
2.4	Pentium III 700	Windows 98	Sun JDK1.3.1	22
2.3	Pentium III 850	Windows XP	Sun J2SDK1.4.0-beta3	24
2.3	Intel Celeron 800	Linux 2.4	Sun JDK1.3.1	23
2.2	Pentium III 700	Windows 98	Sun JDK1.3.1	29
2.2	Intel Celeron 800	Linux 2.4	Sun JDK1.3.1	23
2.2	Sparc Ultra-80	Solaris 2.8	Sun JDK1.2.2	42
2.2	AMD K6/II 300	Linux 2.0	Sun JDK1.2pre1	124
2.2	Pentium III 700	Windows 98	MS JView 5.00	21
1.3	AMD K6/II 300	Linux 2.0	Sun JDK1.2pre1	128
1.2	Pentium 75 Mhz	Unix	Sun JDK1.1.3	1338
1.2	UltraSparc 170 Mhz	Solaris 2.5	Sun JDK1.1.5	605
1.2	UltraSparc 170 Mhz	Solaris 2.5	Sun JDK1.2 beta 2	579
1.2	Pentium MMX 166 Mhz	Windows 95	Sun JDK1.2	72
1.2	Pentium MMX 166 Mhz	Windows 95	Microsoft Jview 4.78	82
1.2	Pentium 75 Mhz	Linux	Tower J 2.0	580
1.2	Pentium 75 Mhz	Linux	Kaffe 0.10.0	540

How fast compiles MINERVA?

Depends on the speed of your Java language processor, on the size of the program to be compiled, and on the program itself.