Re: speed question

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:59:57PM +0200, Nikita wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using sisc in my project to replace java gui code with scheme one.
> And I noticed that application startup time had increased significantly.
> I've written a simple benchmark (attached) to compare speed of SISC and
> mzScheme interpreters. mzScheme appeared to be ten times faster than
> SISC. I've also tested Kawa and SISC interpreters that are build in
> SchemeScript. Benchmark results are presented below:

You'll find that the load times are mostly due to syntax expansion and 
compilation.  What you'll want to do is compile the code you want into
a .scc file, using |compile-file|.  These will load much more quickly, 
as they skip those phases.  That should narrow the gap.  

	Scott

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