On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > Of course, we usually optimize for long-term performance, and it's > sometimes tricky to balance short-term and long-term performance. Does > the difference that you see still matter when a program does something > useful?
If I run the Shootout typed mandelbrot set benchmark in the tree, like this (after adding #lang : % time r -l racket/base -t tmandel.rkt 1000 > /dev/null real 0m0.495s user 0m0.460s sys 0m0.032s % time r -t tmandel.rkt 1000 > /dev/null real 0m0.551s user 0m0.516s sys 0m0.032s Still a pretty short computation, but the overhead there. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev