[Ecls-list] Improving CLOS?

[Julian Stecklina]

Waldek Hebisch <hebisch at math.uni.wroc.pl> writes:

> They report (depending on number of parameters) between 218 and 77
> milions of dispatching calls per second on 2.5 GHz Core 2.  That is
> 11-33 clocks per call.  I am affraid that with current call convention
> ECL has no chance to match that: current ECL indirect call costs
> about 75 clocks, so even if dispatching cost would be reduced to 0,
> ECL still would be much slower.

This is surprisingly expensive. Might be a branch prediction miss due to
the indirect call?

Regards,
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Julian Stecklina

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