Re: slowdown in tests

Charles Zhang via Sbcl-devel <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Feb 2026 15:07:21 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.devel
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Let’s change :sb-eval to use fast eval with evaluator mode :compile, and make :sb-fasteval use fast eval with default to :interpret.


On Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:49 PM, Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> wrote:

One qualm I have about swithing to sb-fasteval is that it changes the
default sb-ext:*evaluator-mode*.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 5:42 PM Douglas Katzman via Sbcl-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I see which change caused it, but I'll note that building with sb-fasteval cut the time down to seconds.
> I'm inclined to disable the test for sb-eval. But really it's time to make sb-fasteval the default.
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 8:08 AM Gábor Melis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Somewhere between e251cf9 and 6db437, genheaders.test.sh slowed down a lot, from about 12-30s to 5+ minutes on my laptop.
>>
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