Re: [Chicken-users] Gazette issue 18

[Felix]

> 
> After seeing a very silly benchmark
> (http://call-with-hopeless-continuation.blogspot.com/2010/03/lies-damn-lies-and-benchmarks.html)
> performed by Mario Domenech Goulart, Bradley Lucier
> (http://www.math.purdue.edu/~lucier/) started a thread
> (https://mercure.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/2011-January/004770.html)
> on Gambit's mailing list showing some results which indicate that
> "Chicken really smokes Gambit" on this femtobenchmark. The question
> is, should it?" Marc Feeley follows up with the reassuring statement
> (https://mercure.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/2011-January/004774.html):
> /The x86 back-end runs fib_scm about 2.5 times faster than when
> using the C back-end. That's faster than Chicken, and also Larceny
> and Ikarus (which have x86 back-ends). The Gambit x86 back-end
> supports both x86-32 and x86-64./ So we guess all is well again.

This thread is hilarious. It says a lot about the ego-driven nature of
Scheme implementors and the performance paranoia they suffer from.

Thanks for the link.


cheers,
felix