Re: LOAD extremely slow

JP Massar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.corman
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 07:57 PM 2/21/03 +0100, Edi Weitz wrote:
> > Did you try compiling the file to produce a .fasl and then loading it?
>
>Just tried it: Compiling the file is even slower - more than 200
>seconds. Loading the compiled file afterwards kills Corman Lisp... :(

Yeah, some .fasl's have that annoying property.  I was hoping yours
might not...

:-)

This might be a good test file for Roger to nail the problem of why
.fasl's don't always work.

> > If you changed the format of the file so that all your data was stored
> > in one big quoted list and then you had a small function which mapcar'ed
> > over that data list it would probably load much faster
> > because the quoted list would only be READ, it would not be subject
> > to compilation analysis.
>  >
> > (Again, this may not be suitable for your purposes, whatever they are)
>
>Yes, that would be a possibility. Actually, it isn't really a problem at
>the moment as this is just (a slightly modified form of) the test suite
>for my CL-PPCRE program.
>
>However, I was a little bit alarmed when I saw this because sometime in
>the future I might be in a situation where I really need something like
>this.

I wouldn't be too alarmed.  There are usually easy-to-implement
workarounds for problems like this.


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