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Re: Very poor Lisp performance

Jon Harrop <use...@jdh30.plus.com>

Svenne Krap wrote:
> Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
>> just as an additional data point, this code runs in just over 6 seconds
>> in sbcl 0.9.3 on a dual 2.0 GHz G5 (though sbcl only uses one processor).

> On a single Xeon 3.4 GHz with sbcl 0.9.3:

> Evaluation took:
>    3.783 seconds of real time
>    3.305498 seconds of user run time
>    0.477927 seconds of system run time
>    0 page faults and
>    509,576,768 bytes consed

On my 1.8GHz AMD64 in 32-bit mode with SBCL 0.9.3 I'm now getting:

    5.21 seconds of real time
    4.15 seconds of user run time
    0.62 seconds of system run time
    0 page faults and
    509,569,248 bytes consed

This seems to be on-par with other people's observations.

This compares to 1.037s for OCaml and 0.987s for C++, so SBCL is now much
more competitive.

Thanks for all the help!

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