[Gcl-devel] Re: 2.6.2

[Paul F. Dietz]

Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  I've taken a stab at some verbiage n the release notes
> page:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~camm/GCL_2_6_2_tests.html
>
> I'm writing this as always too quickly, late at night, being short on
> time.  I'd greatly appreciate suggestions and comments/edits.
> Specifically, I want to make sure we don't overstate the condition of
> GCL, yet I feel we need to state clearly where possible and fair GCL's
> strong points to help ameliorate the prevailing somewhat negative
> impression of our project.
Camm,

  There's still something wrong with your benchmarks on cmucl.
I'm told that in cl-bench cmucl (and sbcl) run about 10x faster
than clisp on the BOYER test, but in your figures the ratio is smaller.

  Can we just use cl-bench?

        Paul