Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-hackers] Any thoughts on performance woes?

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:43:42 +0200 Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:35:38PM +0000, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:32:39 +0200 Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> > If anyone wants to add it to the chicken-benchmark repo, I would
>> > recommend removing the writing of the output file, as that's really
>> > not where the bottleneck is, and writing a file isn't very nice in a
>> > benchmark suite.  Also, the "(use extras)" can be removed.  Finally,
>> > the displaying could be killed as well.
>> 
>> Some days ago I ported a ray tracer from the Larceny suite to
>> chicken-benchmarks:
>> https://github.com/mario-goulart/chicken-benchmarks/blob/master/progs/ray.scm
>
> The difference is, this one is much better code, which doesn't exercise
> the garbage collector, so it isn't much use as a GC benchmark.

I also ported gcbench:
https://github.com/mario-goulart/chicken-benchmarks/blob/master/progs/gcbench.scm

Best wishes.
Mario
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