Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > On Wed 23 Mar 2011 00:20, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottm...@gmx.at> writes: > >> In porting dorodango[0], I have noticed that Guile's R6RS fixnum >> operations are quite slow; here's a patch to remedy that a bit. > > What is the state of things here? I'm a bit lost in the discussion :) > I'll post a summary mail regarding performace soonish; it's quite tedious to set up branches for all the possibly interesting combinations of optimizations, and then actually running the benchmarks.
> You said that decompressing the zip file takes 74 seconds with Guile as > it is now. What if you change to use Guile's arithmetic instead of > fxops? That would give is a good baseline so that we can know how much > overhead the fxops have. > I'll put numbers for that into the benchmark; i.e. with a `(rnrs arithmetic fixnum)' module just containing aliases. Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
