Medley Interlisp Gabriel Benchmarks

About

This repository runs Gabriel benchmark suites in Medley Interlisp.

The benchmark set comes from the work documented by Richard P. Gabriel in Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems.

Quick Start

0. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/interlisp/new-gabriel.git
cd gabriel

1. Make the runner executable

chmod +x do-bench.sh

2. Set MEDLEYDIR (required before first run)

Set only MEDLEYDIR to your Medley install path:

export MEDLEYDIR="/absolute/path/to/medley"

3. Run a benchmark suite

The do-bench.sh script expects three arguments:

• bench-name - a human-readable name, e.g., "First Benchmark"
• bench-file - the name of the benchmark file, normally one of BENCH-1, ..., BENCH-5
• bench-fn - the name of the benchmark function, normally identical to the name of the file

For example,

./do-bench.sh "TAK, ARITH, IO Benchmarks" BENCH-1 BENCH-1

What Each Suite Runs

• BENCH-1: TAK, ARITH, IO
• BENCH-2: AREFY (and IO support load)
• BENCH-3: CONSY
• BENCH-4: POLY
• BENCH-5: MISC (with IO and MISC support loads)

Results

Each run writes output under Results/:

• Results/BENCH-1/
• Results/BENCH-2/
• Results/BENCH-3/
• Results/BENCH-4/
• Results/BENCH-5/