Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix performance bottleneck in compiling large files, add profiling option

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:38:39PM +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Afterwards, I added the option to selectively turn on profiling for
> parts in Chicken itself to the Makefiles (see patch 0001 or changeset
> 57fff73344771739e7723e28df0c0019058a0268 in the sjamaan-pending branch).
> This helped me analyze the performance by simply profiling Chicken while
> it compiled a test file containing 1000 toplevel expressions.

For those who want to reproduce the experiment and see the same profiling
results, I ran the build using:
$ make DEBUGBUILD=1 PROFILE_OBJECTS="c-backend eval"

The chicken used to build is the current master.

Cheers,
Peter
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