Re: fast-format?

Best to make sure you doing timings on compiled code, otherwise you're
timing the  macro expansion too.

At 17:32 +0000 3/18/03, conrad bookout wrote:
>on my lisp machine (macivory mod 3), fast-format isn't so fast. should we look at tuning the code?
>
>fast-format:
>
>DEVO> (time (fast-format *standard-output* " ~S ~S" "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd")) "-//W3
>C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"
>Evaluation of (FAST-FORMAT *STANDARD-OUTPUT* " ~S ~S" "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd") took
>0.028172 seconds of elapsed time including:
> 0.003 seconds processing sequence breaks,
> 0.020 seconds in the storage system (including 0.019 seconds waiting for pages):
>   0.020 seconds processing 1 page fault including 1 fetch,
>   0.000 seconds in creating and destroying pages, and
>   0.000 seconds in miscellaneous storage system tasks.
>39 list words consed in WORKING-STORAGE-AREA.
>6 list, 147 structure words consed in *PRESENTATION-AREA*.
>NIL
>
>format:
>
>DEVO> (time (format *standard-output* " ~S ~S" "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd")) "-//W3C//DT
>D HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"
>Evaluation of (FORMAT *STANDARD-OUTPUT* " ~S ~S" "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd") took 0.024
>041 seconds of elapsed time including:
> 0.000 seconds processing sequence breaks,
> 0.001 seconds in the storage system (including 0.000 seconds waiting for pages):
>   0.000 seconds processing 0 page faults including 0 fetches,
>   0.001 seconds in creating and destroying pages, and
>   0.000 seconds in miscellaneous storage system tasks.
>2 list words consed in WORKING-STORAGE-AREA.
>6 list, 140 structure words consed in *PRESENTATION-AREA*.
>NIL
>DEVO>
>
>conrad
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