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Re: 1.3.4pre v. 1.3.2 speed
- To: knotwell at f5 dot com
- Subject: Re: 1.3.4pre v. 1.3.2 speed
- From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
- Date: 23 Sep 1999 01:42:34 +0200
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Cc: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
- References: <14310.54582.913960.517452@knotwell.f5.com>
knotwell <knotwell@f5.com> writes:
> I was curious to see the other email regarding guile's increased
> startup speed.
Which one?
> For a small bit of fun, I decided to run the 1.3.2 version of guile
> with GUILE_LOAD_PATH pointing at the 1.3.4 ice-9 tree. Anyhow, I was
> kind of fascinated to see that's the fastest combination available on
> my machine.
How large was the difference?
In 1.3.4, the ice-9 tree has been modified in a way that should give
almost three times faster startup for scripts. Try:
time guile -c 1
(I'm still curious how much slower the 1.3.4 ice-9 tree was the way
you measured. How did you measure?)