Re: [Chicken-users] Re: nursery logic

[felix winkelmann]

On 7/16/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am tempted to say the nursery is a waste of time, but perhaps other
> people will have other experiences on different machines.  I'd like to
> hear about people actually getting a 5% improvement.

The benchmark is just a rough estimate, as I already said.
I have seen noticable performance differences with gcc (between
a 64k nursery and a 300k one). The test seems to be "jittering",
and I don't know the reason for that. Maybe cache issues, I dunno.

> Anyways the nursery support is in Darcs now.

Very good.


cheers,
felix