> > 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 _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
