[plt-scheme] nonstandard installation

Robby Findler wrote:
> Where are you measuring the slowdown? Something like this:
> 
>> (time (let loop ([n (expt 10 8)]) (unless (zero? n) (loop (- n 1)))))
> 
> ? Or some other task?

Curiouser.

The above takes 372/374/0 on my MacBook Pro (2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo).

It takes 101920/111723/0 for the installed Solaris version.

When I crank it down to (expt 10 7) and run it, I get 9730/9897/0 for 
the installed version and 11210/11226/0 for the locally-built version.

I think the lesson is to not use Solaris. Pity that that's where all our 
autotesting is currently done. --PR