Re: [Gcl-devel] efficiency of package symbol tables

[Bruno Haible]

Mike Thomas wrote:
> I tried duplicating the symbol table problem on a Windows XP box with a
> pre-release of the ANSI GCL 2.6.2 but could not get that explosion in time
> you report after more than 30 iterations, as shown below.

Still, you get a heavy slowdown, by a factor of 7 in your case:

> >(time (fill-symtab 10000))
>
> real time : 0.367 secs
> run time  : 0.367 secs
> NIL
> ...
> >(time (fill-symtab 10000))
>
> real time : 2.467 secs
> run time  : 2.467 secs
> NIL

So the bug is still there in your 2.6.2-pre build.

Bruno