On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 09:50:18PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:39:50AM -0700, Martin DeMello wrote: > > Post to /r/scheme about chicken's bignum performance. (Not my post, > > just figured it could use some eyeballs.) > > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/3b1ujw/performance_of_chicken_scheme_numbers_bignums/ > > Hello Martin, > > Thanks for posting this. We had already been discussing it earlier > today in #chicken. I had another look at the code but I can't really > find any obvious inefficiencies. It is indeed a bit faster with > CHICKEN 5, but not by much. > > Of course, Guile is "cheating" by using GMP. If I compare it to another > Scheme which has its own bignum implementation like Gauche, we perform > about the same. It's interesting that sbcl is doing so well. Maybe I'm > overlooking something seemingly minor but important?
I didn't read much of this thread but I believe sbcl also uses gmp. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04 _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
