[gambit-list] Speed on XML-parsing
Hans Petter Egesund
petter.egesund at gmail.com
Sat Aug 16 10:17:47 EDT 2008
Thanks. I will put it somewhere in the ssax-module and do a new
recompile.
Petter
Den 16. aug. 2008 kl. 16.09 skrev Marc Feeley:
> If you are really into optimizing the I/O, I suggest you implement
> your own special purpose string-port I/O layer. Basically you
> redefine read-char to read from a string. The code below shows
> that this can be over 20 times faster than Gambit's built-in string
> ports. The main reasons for the difference are function inlining
> and locking (to support multithreading).
>
> (define (convoluted-string-length1 str) ;; uses standard string ports
> (declare (standard-bindings) (fixnum) (not safe))
> (let ((port (open-input-string str)))
> (let loop ((i 0))
> (let ((c (read-char port)))
> (if (char? c)
> (loop (+ i 1))
> i)))))
>
> (define-macro (macro-open-input-string str)
> `(let ((str ,str))
> (declare (standard-bindings) (fixnum) (not safe))
> (cons str 0)))
>
> (define-macro (macro-read-char my-port)
> `(let ((my-port ,my-port))
> (declare (standard-bindings) (fixnum) (not safe))
> (let ((str (car my-port))
> (pos (cdr my-port)))
> (if (< pos (string-length str))
> (let ((c (string-ref str pos)))
> (set-cdr! my-port (+ 1 pos))
> c)
> #!eof))))
>
> (define-macro (open-input-string str) `(macro-open-input-string ,str))
> (define-macro (read-char port) `(macro-read-char ,port))
>
> ;; insert your code after this point, for example:
>
> (define (convoluted-string-length2 str) ;; uses "fast" string ports
> (declare (standard-bindings) (fixnum) (not safe))
> (let ((port (open-input-string str)))
> (let loop ((i 0))
> (let ((c (read-char port)))
> (if (char? c)
> (loop (+ i 1))
> i)))))
>
> (define (test)
> (let ((s (make-string 4000000 #\!)))
> (pretty-print (time (convoluted-string-length1 s)))
> (pretty-print (time (convoluted-string-length2 s)))))
>
> (test)
>
> ;; (time (convoluted-string-length1 s))
> ;; 704 ms real time
> ;; 703 ms cpu time (661 user, 42 system)
> ;; 1 collection accounting for 50 ms real time (32 user, 19
> system)
> ;; 36023288 bytes allocated
> ;; no minor faults
> ;; no major faults
> ;; 4000000
> ;; (time (convoluted-string-length2 s))
> ;; 26 ms real time
> ;; 25 ms cpu time (25 user, 0 system)
> ;; no collections
> ;; 24 bytes allocated
> ;; no minor faults
> ;; no major faults
> ;; 4000000
>
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