[Ecls-list] Changes in sequences

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <
gdr at integrable-solutions.net> wrote:

> this begs a question I have had a for a while:  Is there anything that
> can be done
> to improve ECL's performance on programs that cons a lot? (e.g. OpenAxiom)
>

Do you mean improving ECL or improving your program?

Regarding the first topic, we should understand better how to optimize the
garbage collector. I believe this has a lot of potential for optimization,
in particular with the use of thread-local or inlined allocation, plus
improvements in the mark phase to make it more efficient (packing the
pointers in the C structures? simpler mark phases?)

Regarding the second, I do not know. I realize that ECL's library deserves
some study for many functions are sub-optimal in terms of consing,
asymptotic efficiency, etc. I mean that even if your program conses a lot,
it might be the case that the "consing" is not the performance sink per se,
but rather inefficient implementations or algorithms.

Juanjo

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