[racket] typed racket slow?

From: Ray Racine (ray.racine at gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 8 11:34:51 EDT 2013

After a raco make r.rkt tr.rkt

ray at rpr:~$ time racket r.rkt

real    0m0.036s
user    0m0.020s
sys    0m0.016s
ray at rpr:~$ time racket tr.rkt

real    0m0.382s
user    0m0.352s
sys    0m0.028s
ray at rpr:~$



On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> I have a fast SSD, so that might be the difference.
>
> Sam
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Ray Racine <ray.racine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Oddly
> >
> > ray at rpr:~$ time racket r.rkt
> >
> > real    0m0.052s
> > user    0m0.040s
> > sys    0m0.012s
> >
> > ray at rpr:~$ time racket tr.rkt
> >
> > real    0m0.958s
> > user    0m0.876s
> > sys    0m0.080s
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I see just under 5 seconds for test.rkt and just over 5 seconds for
> >> > utest.rkt.  So there's a fraction of a second extra startup time for
> >> > Typed
> >> > Racket, but it takes less time for each subsequent computation, so the
> >> > difference depends on how much "real" work you do after startup.  I
> >> > don't
> >> > know what causes that startup cost, but hopefully this kind of
> benchmark
> >> > will be useful to the Typed Racket maintainers in closing the gap for
> >> > future
> >> > versions.  So, thanks for the example, Manfred!
> >>
> >> This is all true, and you can see it in simpler examples.  The empty
> >> modules:
> >>
> >> #lang typed/racket/base
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> #lang racket/base
> >>
> >> have the following timings:
> >>
> >> [samth at hermes:~/tmp plt] time racket test.rkt
> >>
> >> real    0m0.592s
> >> user    0m0.516s
> >> sys    0m0.064s
> >> [samth at hermes:~/tmp plt] time racket test2.rkt
> >>
> >> real    0m0.065s
> >> user    0m0.040s
> >> sys    0m0.024s
> >>
> >> So you can see about 500 ms of extra overhead. Most of this time is in
> >> loading and executing the runtime dependencies of Typed Racket, which
> >> aren't used here, but which the implementation architecture of Typed
> >> Racket makes it basically impossible to reduce.  We've worked hard to
> >> reduce this cost, but it's hard to go much further.
> >>
> >> Sam
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> >
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