[Ecls-list] Startup time

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Waldek Hebisch
<hebisch at math.uni.wroc.pl> wrote:
>> Sure! Remove the si_gc(Ct) statement in src/c/load.d and please tell
>> me whether this helps. I can remove it from the default configuration.
>
> I have now tried this modification on ECL 0.9l (CVS 2008-06-19 17:09)
> Stock version gives me: [...]
> real time : 27.550 secs
> run time  : 24.789 secs
> gc count  : 1108 times
> consed    : 46275376 bytes
>
> Modified version gives:[...]
> real time : 1.323 secs
> run time  : 1.192 secs
> gc count  : 7 times
> consed    : 46293536 bytes
>
> So the speed difference is substantial.

I am glad to read this. This change has been committed to CVS several
months ago, so you should be getting similar speedups with the next
release. If this is not the case, please report it immediately

Juanjo

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