[Ecls-list] ECL shootout

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Marko Kocić<marko.kocic at gmail.com> wrote:
> And here are updated results with unithreaded ECL. Seems like threads
> add big overhead to benchmarks.

I would love to be able to translate those to speed ups when building
OpenAxiom  http://www.open-axiom.org/ with ECL.
The build-time with ECL (2h34min) has consistenly trailed SBCL (33min),
and GCL (35min) in that order.

Also, recently, I got a very curious report about some testcase, which
I ultimately traced to be dependent on the Lisp implementation.
Detailed numbers are at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2809350&group_id=203172&atid=984524

One thing to note is that OpenAxiom makes uses of lot of indirect
calls, and calls
to sequence generic functions.  I know, Juanjo has improved indirect calls
recently -- still they seem at least two times slower than GCL.

-- Gaby