[Ecls-list] Performance comparison

[Samium Gromoff]

From: "Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll" <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>
> Ubuntu, running on an Intel/64 machine (A Quad-core with 8GB RAM),
> built with --enable-gengc --enable-smallcons  There have been some
> late commits that speed up calling functions about which the compiler
> has little information (i.e. functions in other files with no
> proclamations, no known C name, etc). I would like to know how much
> they helped to get these numbers, but I had not time to do regression
> tests.
> 
> ECL (CVS 2008-06-29) compiled
> real time : 52.687 secs
> run time  : 48.530 secs
> 
> SBCL (Ubuntu, 1.0.11) compiled
>   48.823f0 seconds of real time
>   47.51f0 seconds of user run time

Wow, this looks really impressive! The benchmark being the Paul Dietz's
ANSI test suite?

This makes me think -- do you know about the Andrew Fuchs' "boinkmarks"?


regards, Samium Gromoff