PCL 70 times slower than Ernie with 1000 cars.

[burdorf%taos@rand.org]

I'm sorry to report this sad fact, but Bruce Florman  requested that I do
a comparison between ERNIE and PCL with 1000 cars on the carwash simulation.


The timings I got were as follows:


8/28/88 (beta rev 1) AAAI PCL  running under Allegro on a SUN 3/60:




cpu time (non-gc) 4198300 msec user, 4966 msec system
cpu time (gc)     673450 msec user, 734 msec system
cpu time (total)  4871750 msec user, 5700 msec system
real time  4932560 msec



ERNIE on a SUN 3/60:


runtime=63070    (the time is in milliseconds)
gctime=0


The timings were about the same for both ERNIE and PCL with 20 cars,
but with 1000 cars, there is no comparision.  ERNIE is 78.2077 times
faster!!! 

I realize that this is not the final version of PCL.  I hope that 
this major performance gap can be narrowed in the future.  


Chris