[Help-smalltalk] Language Shootout - are we doing something wrong?

[Isaac Gouy]

The current GST implementations are now shown at:
   http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/lang/gst/

Is there anything else we should try to improve performance?
For example, ackermann seems to do a lot of GC 

...
"Scavenging... 87% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
"Scavenging... 0% reclaimed, done"
...

time gst -QI /usr/local/share/smalltalk/gst.im ackermann.st -a 8

Ack(3,8): 2045

real    0m2.636s
user    0m2.490s
sys     0m0.070s

best wishes, Isaac



                
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