Benchmarking

[Robert S. Boyer <boyer@CLI.COM>]

    >Depending on your application (and the quality of your C compiler) KCL may
    >perform as well as a native Lisp, or may be 3 or more times slower.

Or maybe 2 times faster.

   To: boyer@cs.utexas.edu
   Cc: olphie@CLI.COM, hunt@CLI.COM
   Subject: New Lisp
   Reply-To: wfs@CLI.COM


   I have installed cmulisp on mongoose.

   It is invoked with /usr/local/bin/cmulisp

   Here is a gabriel benchmark run on a sparc station 2.

   [Note you have to input (quit) to get the lisp to end,
   just the end of file doesn't do it, as it does in lucid,
   allegro and akcl.]



   Inserting file ~/chart-lisps
   ---Begin File ~/chart-lisps---
   On a sparcstation 2
   cmulisp version 15a
   akcl 603 (compiled with standard sun cc of rel 4.1.1)

		 AKCL   cmulisp
   BOYER        1.550    2.140
   BROWSE       2.717    7.480
   CTAK         1.017    0.510
   DDERIV       0.950    1.830
   DERIV        0.683    1.630
   DESTRU-MOD   0.267    0.287
   DESTRU       0.258    0.287
   DIV2         1.400    1.540
   FFT-MOD      0.750    0.390
   FFT          11.350   0.430
   FPRINT       0.121    2.240
   FREAD        0.150    0.918
   FRPOLY       9.200    10.750
   PUZZLE-MOD   1.067    2.280
   PUZZLE       1.133    1.090
   STAK         0.450    0.315
   TAK-MOD      0.317    0.650
   TAK          0.517    0.650
   TAKL         0.183    0.450
   TAKR         0.075    0.180
   TPRINT       0.196    4.330
   TRAVERSE     5.467    9.830
   TRIANG-MOD   9.433   279.200
   TRIANG       11.450   29.110
   ---End File ~/chart-lisps---