our benchmark-suite

2012-04-23 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, I was going to try to optimize vhash-assoc, but I wanted a good benchmark first, so I started to look at our benchmark suite. We have some issues to deal with. For those of you who are not familiar with the benchmark suite, we have a bunch of benchmarks in benchmark-suite/benchmarks/: those

Problems with compilation on Trisquel 5.5

2012-04-23 Thread Sjoerd van Leent
Dear readers, Recently I upgraded my machine to Trisquel 5.5 (x86_64). While I used Trisquel 5, I had no issues compiling guile, however now it appears all hell broke losoe. When compiling I get to the generation stage of GEN guile-procedures.texi. The stage ends up with a Segmentation fault. I

Re: Problems with compilation on Trisquel 5.5

2012-04-23 Thread Sjoerd van Leent
I found out, as a response to myself that the tag guile-2.0.5 does not share the same issues as the master branch. I will attempt to figure out where and when the problem is introduced, but it will be helpful if anyone knows about a change which might involve different/weird GC behavior. Regards,

Re: Broken Backtraces, and Part of a Solution

2012-04-23 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, After looking at it more, there aren't really enough stack functions to warrant a test suite. Sounds like a fallacious argument to me.  ;-) Would it be possible for you to add test cases?  There are a few tests under “stacks” in eval.test; perhaps something along these lines would