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 -- http://wingolog.org/