[armedbear-devel] Significant increase in build time

[Blake McBride]

I'd really like to run a bench mark before and after the commit in
question.  I spent a short time trying to run the benchmarks a while
back but was unsuccessful getting it to run.  Can you help me with
this?

Thanks.

Blake


On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Blake McBride <blake at mcbride.name> wrote:
> That's helpful.  Thanks.  So now we need to do benchmark / runtime tests.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Blake,
>>
>>
>> Before going to bed, I did a quick test - as discussed over GMail chat
>> - to see how much they differ in compilation times on other software.
>>
>> timing new code, Maxima compilation: 223.416s, loading: 25.8
>> timing old code, Maxima compilation: 204.063s, loading: 29.174
>>
>> I have no idea of the variation of the Maxima compilation times; it
>> looks like the new code is 10% slower at compiling, but 20% more
>> efficient at loading. However, these were single runs, so my
>> conclusions may be way off, depending on the variations.
>>
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> Erik.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Blake McBride <blake at mcbride.name> wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I hadn't built ABCL in a little while so I checked out the latest
>>> version today and built it.  It seemed to be significantly slower than
>>> before so I decided to investigate.  This is what I found.
>>>
>>> In the past I could build ABCL in 2:43.  It now takes me 4:40.  That
>>> (IMO) represents a pretty significant change in build time.  I did a
>>> binary search and discovered that all of the change occurred at
>>> revision 12918 - Generic Class File Branch Merge.
>>>
>>> In general, I could't care less about the build time unless it is
>>> indicative of a problem that could rear its head in my application.
>>> Where is that time being spent?  Is there a change in runtime?
>>> Loading? Compiling?
>>>
>>> I'd be real interested in this.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Blake McBride
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> armedbear-devel mailing list
>>> armedbear-devel at common-lisp.net
>>> http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/armedbear-devel
>>>
>>
>