[plt-scheme] DrScheme Faster on Powerset than MzScheme - Why?

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Mar 15 22:50:50 EDT 2007

On Mar 15, Robby Findler wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > On Mar 15, Kyle Smith wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > I was really surprised that DrScheme beat out MzScheme.  Do I have
> > > something setup wrong on the command line of MzScheme, as I don't
> > > often use the stand-alone interpreter, so I could be missing
> > > something?
> >
> > Your results show that running the code in MzScheme is consistently
> > faster -- if you ignore the GC time -- you have:
> >
> >   (- 469 265) -> 204
> >   (- 469 266) -> 203
> >
> > in DrScheme, and
> >
> >   (- 563 405) -> 158
> >   (- 563 376) -> 187
> >
> > in MzScheme.
> 
> Was debugging enabled in the drscheme run?

I don't know -- I used Kyle's numbers.

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