Jon Rafkind wrote at 12/21/2010 03:25 PM:
So what does COST and COST-GCMS mean? And what does it mean when they are negative?
As the documentation implies, only the "RUN" and "RUN-GCMS" numbers are very meaningful in this version. They are, respectively, "how many ms did the iterations take to run, not counting any lingering GC cost afterwards" and "how many ms of GC occurred during those iterations, and I proclaim that I am aware that this number can be off due to fixnum arithmetic overflow, and I will call the unit gcms so that I do not forget."
You can see from the code that it was trying to estimate how much GC cleanup cost is left after the iterations are run, to include in a metric of the total cost of an expression. When I wrote this macro yesterday, I intended that "COST" be the most important number, but it didn't actually work, so it has been pushed off to the side. I left the number in so that I could keep an eye on it as I use this macro and perhaps notice a way to produce a useful metric out of it.
This is what I get for trying to push out code when I write it, rather than letting it sit around for years until I have time to finish it. I have just spent a few days restoring my unreleased, years-old XML and URI libraries from bit-rot, and was trying to avoid that. :)
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