Yup, it's another chart! But don't worry, this one isn't slanderiferous.

As many of you know, both AMX Mod and AMX Mod X have started using the JIT core, which was rumored to be to up "10 times faster" than the normal C implementation of the Small core.

The JIT is written in pure assembly and compiles ".amx" files to pure machine code. The ASM core is written in pure assembly and translates ".amx" to machine calls on the fly. The normal core, written in C, simply interprets ".amx" code into C.

So, how do these three ways of compiling AMX Mod * compare? Why is the JIT so important? Check out the benchmarks!

http://www.tcwonline.org/~dvander/bench.htm

*Note: the Small, Small-ASM, and Small-JIT cores are provided by a third party, ITB CompuPhase.