Re: [Chicken-hackers] Any thoughts on performance woes?

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:35:38PM +0000, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:32:39 +0200 Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > If anyone wants to add it to the chicken-benchmark repo, I would
> > recommend removing the writing of the output file, as that's really
> > not where the bottleneck is, and writing a file isn't very nice in a
> > benchmark suite.  Also, the "(use extras)" can be removed.  Finally,
> > the displaying could be killed as well.
> 
> Some days ago I ported a ray tracer from the Larceny suite to
> chicken-benchmarks:
> https://github.com/mario-goulart/chicken-benchmarks/blob/master/progs/ray.scm

The difference is, this one is much better code, which doesn't exercise
the garbage collector, so it isn't much use as a GC benchmark.

Cheers,
Peter

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