[plt-scheme] JIT and flonums

The problem does seem to be in PLoT.  When I run demo-1.ss (in C:\Program
Files\PLT-FULL-3.99.0.8\collects\plot\demos on my machine), it generally has
an empty plot.  Occasionally it will show the plot - maybe 1 time in 10 or
so, the other times it is just the axes and labels.  [Don't be confused by
the image in the source file, which also prints out when evaluated.  I just
comment it out or delete it.  Then just hit the run button repeatedly.
Also, it has to be run in the Pretty Big language because of build-list.]

I also checked it with some of the science collections tests (for example,
uniform-int-histogram-int-example.ss in the example subdirectory of the
science collection, which doesn't have the subcollection reference
problem).  It exhibits the same behavior.

For the PLaneT subcollection problem, the exact error message I get is:
bernoulli-example.ss:1:9: planet: bad module path in: (planet "bernoulli.ss"
("williams" "science.plt") "random-distributions").  But, (require (planet "
science.ss" ("williams" "science.plt"))) works fine.

But there is a noticeable speedup in the overall test execution.

On Jan 3, 2008 3:25 PM, Doug Williams <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried running the science collection examples in 3.99.  Most of the
> plots were just empty, so I need to see if it's a problem with the PLoT
> package or with my code.  [They didn't error, just gave empty plots.]  For
> the ones that did run and which are computationally intensive (with flonums)
> - like Chebyshev evaluation and (especially) the ordinary differential
> equation solvers - they 'seemed' much faster.  But, it's anecdotal - I just
> eyeballed it.  I have to track down my uses of set-cdr!, etc in the
> simulation collection before I try any of my larger examples there.
>
> One interesting problem came up.  Has the use of subcollections in PLaneT
> changed with 3.99?  For example, (require (planet "bernoulli.ss"
> ("williams" "science.plt") "random-distributions")) says it can't find the
> file, but it works fine in V372 (and before).
>
> Doug
>
>
>
> On Dec 28, 2007 3:55 PM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Joyous day!  Should my code run in 3.99 I'll do some benchmarking.
> >
> > N.
> >
> > On Dec 28, 2007 10:52 PM, Matthew Flatt < mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > > The latest in SVN (v3.99.0.7) includes new JIT support on x86 for
> > > inlining flonum (i.e., inexact real) arithmetic. I expect to fill in
> > > x86_64 and PPC support next week.
> > >
> > > This change makes inexact-heavy microbenchmarks run 2-3 times as fast.
> > > It might be useful for real programs, too, but I don't seem to have
> > any
> > > interesting floating-point applications to try out.
> > >
> > > Matthew
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