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Re: performance


On 23 Mar 1999, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:

> Andres' figures indicated that scm5d0 was 800% faster than Guile.
> When checking it myself I found that scm5d0 was 144% faster than the
> debugging evaluator and 43% faster than the normal with his test
> profram.  (I used the development snapshot, but the difference between
> that and the released 1.3 should be withing the 30% I talked about
> previously.)

I was told in private mail that Guile 1.3 has a bug in the reader that
causes the poor performance.


Andres.