Comments on The Racket Blog: Benchmarks

Good point regarding the use of `time'. Ah wel...

2010-01-30T14:22:58.538-05:00

Good point regarding the use of `time'. Ah well, a Lisp is never finished, is it. Thanks for the response, and happy hacking :)

I don't think that compilation time is include...

2010-01-30T11:10:13.894-05:00

I don't think that compilation time is included, since run time is measured within the program using `(times)'. Also, clearing out the cache before running doesn't seem to give different results than running a second time.

Thanks for adding Guile 1.9.7. I wonder though, di...

2010-01-30T08:14:13.955-05:00

Thanks for adding Guile 1.9.7. I wonder though, did you include the runtime for the first Guile run? Guile will compile files the first time they're run, and then used the cached object file later.

I ask because my old slow laptop is getting better times than the ones you list. Perhaps you inadvertantly included that first compilation time.

In any case, congrats on those great PLT results! :)

Happy hacking,

Andy

Although I don't want to stay in the benchmark...

2010-01-29T21:16:46.931-05:00

Although I don't want to stay in the benchmark-running business, Guile 1.9.7 does seem to be much faster than 1.8.7. So, I've replaced 1.8.7 with 1.9.7 in the benchmark results.

Could it be possible to add Guile 1.9.7 to that li...

2010-01-29T16:42:24.576-05:00

Could it be possible to add Guile 1.9.7 to that list?