[Gcl-devel] Re: new benchmark results for 8 CL implementations in cliki.net

[Christian Pietsch]

Hi Mike and the developers,

* On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:27:34AM MEST, Mike Thomas wrote:
> Yes.  The thing that made me feel fairly sure that you were using CLtL1 was
> that you mentioned originally that write-sequence/2 was not present and
> apropos showed write-sequence present in the ANSI build but not the CLtL1
> build I.

initially I really had a CLtL1 built. But then I rebuilt it to use
ANSI mode. I can't try it again right now because the benchmark script
is broken in several places.

> Would you please be able to send us (this list and CC me) the results of
> typing ":bt" at the debug prompt?  This will help use to discover where the
> erroneous call came from.

Sure. Here's the backtrace:

----------8<---------------------
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  2.6.3 ANSI   Jul 26 2004 00:34:19
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Binary License:  GPL due to GPL'ed components: (READLINE BFD UNEXEC)
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Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL.
Error in FIND-METHOD-COMBINATION [or a callee]: FIND-METHOD-COMBINATION [or a 
callee] requires more than two arguments.

Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging
Broken at FIND-METHOD-COMBINATION.  Type :H for Help.
 1 (Continue) Retry loading file #p"files/clos.o".
 2 Retry loading file "do-execute-script.lisp".
 3 (Abort) Return to top level.
dbl:CL-BENCH.CLOS>>:bt

#0   FIND-METHOD-COMBINATION {loc0=#<compiled-closure 
08846984>,loc1=and,loc2=nil,loc3=(#<compiled-closure 08...} [ihs=9]
#1   ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION-USING-CLASS {existing=(nil complex-method 
:lambda-list ...),spec=#S(pcl::method-call functio...} [ihs=8]
#2   (DEFGENERIC COMPLEX-METHOD)2239 {loc0=complex-method,loc1=(a b &rest 
...),loc2=(:method-combination (and)),loc3=...} [ihs=7]
#3   CLCS-LOAD {} [ihs=6]
#4   TOP-LEVEL {loc0=nil,loc1=nil,loc2=nil,loc3=#<compiled-function 
conditions::clcs-load>,loc4...} [ihs=5]
#5   FUNCALL {loc0=#<compiled-function 
system:top-level>,loc1=nil,loc2=0,loc3=0,loc4=nil,loc5...} [ihs=4]
NIL
dbl:CL-BENCH.CLOS>>
---------->8---------------------

May it be helpful.

Cheers,
Christian