Re: Dylan performance

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• Subject: Re: Dylan performance
• From: Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz>
• Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:15:01 -0500 (EST)
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Rolf Wester <wester@ilt.fhg.de> writes:

> The small test program is listed below. The Dylan version takes
> about 50 seconds on my machine. A c++ version of that program takes
> only 0.2 seconds (cygwin g++), a Python version 25 seconds and
> ACL6.0 Lisp 9 seconds (with all possible declarations; CMUCL is
> faster but only available for UNIX).

How are you timing the programs? The Dylan versions loads a large
number of DLL files on first invocation before your code is actually
run so that will be slow. On later invocations it will be faster due
to caching, etc.

Chris.
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http://www.double.co.nz/dylan

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