Re: [Chicken-users] system load with chicken

[felix]

Joerg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm just getting to work with chicken, porting quite a lot of code
> (Askemos).  Thereby I made a decision, which is probably not
> desirable: I used the pregexp package entensively.  As a result, the
> parser which uses it is unusable slow.  OK, I'll replace it; *but* how
> does it come that the system load is close to zero, when the
> parser/pregexp is active?
>
> It looks as if I'm watching an idle system for 12 seconds to parse
> 1310 bytes.
>
> Anything I could have done wrong?

Geez. Something must be wrong indeed. The pregexp parser is
somewhat slower than the native regex-lib, but not *that* slow.
Can you give some examples/code?


cheers,
felix