Re: Playing with guile (vs python). Generate file for GDP suitable for gnuplot.

[Germán Diago]

>
> If I understand your script correctly, you want to grab all lines with
> GDP, sort the values by year and country and output them. Is that right?
>
> As a first warning: the csv module in Python mainly calls into a C-based
> implementation (_csv, see csv.__file__), so it will be hard to beat this
> in pure Scheme.
>
> Good to know.


> But now, let’s begin with the optimization. These are my times:
>
> $ time guile-2.0 extract_gdp.scm
> real    0m0.509s
> $ time python3 extract_gdp.py
> real    0m0.089s
>
> The first step is using Guile 2.1.6 instead of 2.0. That reduces the
> runtime by 40% to 0.3s. Source: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/
> guile-2.1.6.tar.xz
>
>
Thanks.


> $ time guile extract_gdp.scm
> real    0m0.296s
> $ time python3 extract_gdp.py
> real    0m0.089s
>
> So there’s a factor of 3.3 between Python and Guile on my machine.
>
>
> Aside from using a more recent Guile, I do not see obvious
> optimizations, however (more exactly: all my tries to speedup the code
> only made it slower).
>

I was struggling with using read-line! instead of read-line but
experimenting in the command line
I cannot figure out how it works actually. read-line! will reuse a buffered
string. There was lots of time spent there, I am not sure if because of
allocations or just because of I/O. If someone could tell me how to do it...

Thanks for your time Arne!