Re: [Chicken-users] help please

[felix]

Linh Dang wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm a newbie trying to learning scheme/chicken. I have a perl script
> that I try to rewrite in scheme. the problem is the perl version took
> 5 secs to run while the compiled (with -benchmark-mode option) scheme
> version took 6 min to run. -profile doesn't help because most of the
> work is done in a single function.
>
> Anyone has subjective opinion on the efficiency of
>
>         - (read-lines)
>         - (string-match)
>         - hash tables

Urgh. 5s vs. 6 mins is hard. Now, Chicken's I/O is definitly not one
of the best (especially `read-line[s]' is pretty slow). How big is
your input data?

I'm sure we can tune this a good deal. For example the list-ref's in
parse-ctags-line look a bit crude. Heavy compiler-optimizations won't
give anything here, since mnost of the work is done in the libraries.

Note that Perl is heavily tuned for these kinds of jobs... ;-)


cheers,
felix