[Chicken-users] chicken vs perl (was Re: help please)

[Linh Dang]

On 14 Apr 2004, address@hidden wrote:
>
>> I will also upload a new snapshot that has a faster read-line for
>> normal FILE* ports in the next days.
>
> Thanx, that would be cool to try!
>
>
> Any way, the current timings are:
>
> scheme program:
> 6.65s user 0.48s system 69% cpu
>
>
> perl script:
> 3.99s user 0.47s system 73% cpu

this is the timings for my script re-compiled with chicken 1.43:

   4.91s user 0.26s system 77% cpu

It seems that chicken 1.43's optimization for read-line cut the system
time almost in half and cut 25% off the user time. Very very good.


Thanx felix

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Linh Dang