[plt-scheme] Statistics (V301.5 Speed Up)

On Feb 11, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Williams, M. Douglas wrote:

> Actually, this exercise is very much a "plug and chug" endeavor on  
> my part.
> I am just curious - in a wholly unscientific way - about the speed  
> up from
> V301 to V301.5 for a continuation entensive application.  In this  
> case, the
> application domain is models developed using the simulation  
> collection I
> developed.  It was meant as a thanks for the work that went into the
> run-time improvements and as I way that I could guage for myself some
> measure of the speed up.  I am quite satisfied with simple  
> statistics on the
> results - the only variable between runs of the same model has been  
> the
> version of the PLT Scheme system used.  Some of us were also  
> curious about
> the shape of the distributions of run times - another example of  
> which is
> attached here.
>
> If anyone would like to do some statistically meaningful ananysis  
> on the
> data.  All of the code is available on PLaneT.
>
> Doug

This may be taking too long (under v301, at least), but top is sort  
of interesting

   PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD   
RSIZE  VSIZE
   653 top          7.8%  0:13.40   1    18    22  1.16M   392K   
3.19M  27.0M
   648 Safari       0.0%  0:03.59   6   124   191  9.96M  17.1M   
14.0M   125M
   647 mdimport     0.0%  0:00.62   3    65    56  1.27M  3.15M   
3.63M  39.2M
   444 lookupd      0.0%  0:01.03   2    34    38   532K  1012K   
1.29M  28.5M
   401 bash         0.0%  0:00.03   1    14    16   208K   840K    
860K  27.2M
   400 login        0.0%  0:00.03   1    16    36   148K   408K    
564K  26.9M
   398 Terminal     0.9%  0:18.20   4    91   131  1.82M  10.7M   
8.32M   116M
   396 DrScheme    87.6%  5:47:17   5   100   236   105M  22.1M    
117M   248M


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Gregory Woodhouse
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