Re: Performance assistance / advice

"Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it)" <[email protected]>
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... which boil down to: there are two godzillion people working on C
compilers (*) and two on Common Lisp compilers.

Cheers

MA

(*) Ok: half a godzillion: the rest is now working on Rust.


On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 15 Apr 2025, at 13:49, Yuri Davidovsky (as work at disclosure dot ie) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Not bad. I assume the best lisp performance version would be sbcl? How
> does the C code fare without optimisations enabled for the corrected code?
>
> Yes, SBCL: LW is OK but somewhat slower (which is fine: LW has other
> advantages!)
>
> With no optimisation flags C is doing about 2.2GFLOPS.  There's not much
> difference between -O and -O3.
>
> My uninformed suspicion is that C is beating SBCL because the C compiler
> is emitting fmadd instructions, and there's an awful lot of x -> x + a * b
> in the code of course.  SBCL doesn't seem to emit those.  But I'm not sure.
>
> --tim
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