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Re: Making Guile slower?
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Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:
> Ok, just two further things:
>
> Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:
>
> > Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net> writes:
>
> Sorry, I thought I responded to Greg Badros. (I *did* experience the
> style as foreign.)
It was very late ;)
> > If you have a sloppy policy with this, the gap in performance
> > compared to SCM will increase.
>
> The idea I wanted to express here is that if you repeatedly make small
> changes increasing evaluation time by 5%, say, it won't be long before
> you have a big effect on the total. Therefore, it is my personal
> opinion that every change influencing performance should have a really
> strong motivation, and be made with knowledge of the effects.
It is something that needs to be considered in every case, but I
really don't think that this particular case could possibly effect the
speed by anything near that (even in the demented case, it doesn't
affect that much, unless you have an amd: then it helps performance
;).
--
Greg