Re: [Chicken-users] spock tests

[Felix]

> In my experiments (updated since we last talked to the most current version 
> of Chrome, Firefox and Safari) I have found that the performance of Spock 
> (and Scheme2JS) varies a lot between JavaScript VMs.  For example Nitro 
> (Safari 6.0) runs JS code generated by Spock about 20 to 30 times slower than 
> V8 (Chrome 21.0.1180.89).  I have attached below the table of results from my 
> Scheme workshop paper.  The programs ctak, contfib30, btsearch2000 and 
> threads10 use continuations heavily.

Very good! Thanks or the timing results, this is certainly very
interesting and I'm happy that Spock performs so well, considering
that it uses an implementation strategy that brings out the worst
in JS engines. BTW, did you use the "-optimize" switch?


cheers,
felix