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Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: xgcl on Linux works


From: Camm Maguire
Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: xgcl on Linux works
Date: 30 Aug 2002 10:58:53 -0400

Greetings, and thanks for the feedback.

Matt Kaufmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi --
> 
> 2) Did you get readline support?
> 
> I think Gordon took that out.  By the way, I'm an emacs user and although I
> don't know what readline support is, it's hard for me to imagine that it would
> add any functionality that I'd want to use.  I encourage other ACL2 users
> around me to use emacs as well.
> 

readline is used primarily for command line completion and editing in a
terminal.  Personally, I use emacs as well, but as yet I'm unfamiliar
with an emacs package providing command completion, at least until
ilisp is up and running.  I'd be interested in knowing how you use
emacs to interface with gcl/acl2.

> 3) Are you using gmp customized for a p3?  (I've never exercised the
>       ISA extension code gmp will generate on such machines in a gcl
>       program such as acl2 or maxima)
> 
> I don't know what "gmp" is or what it stands for.  Perhaps Kay knows.

Gnu Multi Precision arithmetic library.  Gcl uses it for 'bignum'
support.  If you compiled on a p3, then you are likely using sse1
instructions, which will work as well on the p4 (which additionally
supports sse2), but not on any lower intel chip.  Just to let you
know.   

> 
> 4) Do you have an indication of gcl's performance
>       strengths/weaknesses? 
> 
> Primarily, just the numbers on the test suite run that I CCed you on before,
> which show that GCL 2.5.0 on a P3 is about a percent faster than Allegro 6.0
> onj the same machine, for the ACL2 regression suite.
> 
> GCL:
> 14817.130u 121.280s 4:10:04.44 99.5%  0+0k 0+0io 5153829pf+0w
> 
> Allegro:
> 15527.850u 94.000s 4:21:11.23 99.6%   0+0k 0+0io 4881150pf+0w
> 

Thanks for this.  If you come across any other performance feedback on
gcl vis a vis other lisps in the course of your ordinary usage, I'd
love to hear about it.

Take care,


-- 
Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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