On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Peter Bex <pe...@more-magic.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:39:50AM -0700, Martin DeMello wrote: > > Post to /r/scheme about chicken's bignum performance. (Not my post, > > just figured it could use some eyeballs.) > > > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/3b1ujw/performance_of_chicken_scheme_numbers_bignums/ > > Hello Martin, > > Thanks for posting this. We had already been discussing it earlier > today in #chicken. I had another look at the code but I can't really > find any obvious inefficiencies. It is indeed a bit faster with > CHICKEN 5, but not by much. > > Of course, Guile is "cheating" by using GMP. If I compare it to another > Scheme which has its own bignum implementation like Gauche, we perform > about the same. It's interesting that sbcl is doing so well. Maybe I'm > overlooking something seemingly minor but important? > > Cheers, > Peter > Not sure about the status of this particular GSOC, but SBCL could also be "cheating". http://www.sbcl.org/gsoc2013/ideas/#sec-1.2 Now, I thought GMP were GPL'd and SBCL not, so I'm unsure about the legal implications, if it does bundle GMP now. — Stephen
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