[racket] [gambit-list] translate from Racket to Common Lisp

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 7 15:45:46 EST 2012

Oh, yes indeed. My apologies for the confusion!!

Robby

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought that too, but I think the URL (bench.html) with the 6-year
> old version was just for the meaning of the columns. The new results
> were attached to the email, and presumably he used the most recent
> one.
>
> Jay
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Brad: this is a 6-year old version of Racket you're using. FYI.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Bradley Lucier <lucier at math.purdue.edu> wrote:
>>> I downloaded 64-bit Racket and compared it to my install of 64-bit gambit:
>>>
>>> [Media-Mac-mini-3:~/programs/gambit/bench] lucier% gsc -v
>>> v4.6.6 20120915144211 i386-apple-darwin10.8.0 "./configure 'CC=/pkgs/gcc-4.7.2/bin/gcc -march=core2 -fschedule-insns -frename-registers' '--enable-single-host' '--enable-multiple-versions'"
>>> [Media-Mac-mini-3:~/programs/gambit/bench] lucier% uname -a
>>> Darwin Media-Mac-mini-3.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
>>>
>>> This is a Mac Mini with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 8GB of ram.
>>>
>>> So this is a Gambit with special gcc options that I find generally makes code run faster, at the expense of compile time.  And it uses the latest GNU GCC.
>>>
>>> So this is not comparing stock gambit with stock mzscheme; it is not comparing apples to apples.
>>>
>>> I applied Matthew Flatt's patch from
>>>
>>> https://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Emflatt/benchmarks-20100126/log1/bench.patch
>>>
>>> to Gambit's bench script, and then ran "table" from Gambit's bench directory.
>>>
>>> This gave me the following four html files that summarize the cpu and real times to execute the programs; compile times are not reported (just because the "table" script does not report them).
>>>
>>> The meanings of the various table titles can be found here:
>>>
>>> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/bench.html
>>>
>>> I repeat:
>>>
>>> So this is not comparing stock gambit with stock mzscheme; it is not comparing apples to apples.
>>>
>>> The systems seem comparable running programs in R6RS-* semantics, except for programs using call-cc.
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>
>>>
>>>
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