[gambit-list] loc count

Eli Barzilay eli at barzilay.org
Tue Feb 17 17:34:46 EST 2009


Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> [...] (on my computer that's about 3 times slower than /bin/sh, but
> still twice as fast as Scheme48 (which also has a 3 MB footprint)
> and about 30 times faster than mzscheme). [...]

If you run mzscheme just like that (eg, mzscheme -e "(exit)") then
you're loading stuff that is useful only for an interactive REPL.  On
my machine, this takes 169ms.  But if you run it with

  mzscheme -I scheme/base -e '(exit)'

then it goes down by a factor of 10 to 17ms.

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