On Tue 05 Apr 2011 00:00, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottm...@gmx.at> writes:

> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> How long does the standard unix utility take, for the record?
>>
> On a tmpfs, with the same ZIP file:
>
> unzip ~/public_html/tmp/bundles/xitomatl-20110103.zip  0.07s user 0.03s 
> system 77% cpu 0.135 total

OK, so Guile (in its standard, "generic" configuration) is about 100
times slower (7.7s) than well-optimized native code.  I guess the
positive way to spin that is that it's great that we have so much room
for improvement ;-)

Andy
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