[Gcl-devel] Boyer benchmark results

[Peter Graves]

Hi,

There was a little discussion on #lisp yesterday about the benchmark
results on this page:

    http://people.debian.org/~camm/GCL_2_6_2_tests.html

To add another data point, I ran the Boyer benchmark on GCL CVS head
(built with --enable-ansi) and several other implementations, using an
Athlon XP 2100+ machine running Linux 2.6.0, with the results below.

The benchmark I used was extracted from Eric Marsden's cl-bench suite
and is available here:

    http://armedbear.org/boyer.lisp

I added (declaim (optimize speed)) at the top of the file (and turned
off *gc-verbose* for CMUCL).

For each system, I simply did (compile-file "boyer.lisp"), (load *),
and then (test 100) 3 times.

GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was used for timing.

The results (best of 3 runs for each system):

    GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  2.7.0 ANSI   Jun 17 2004 17:50:11

        3.22 seconds

    CMU Common Lisp CVS release-18e-branch + minimal debian patches

        2.87 seconds

    SBCL 0.8.11

        2.592 seconds

    Allegro CL 6.2 Trial Edition

        3.79 seconds

    CLISP 2.33.1 (2004-05-22)

        18.059256 seconds

    ABCL 0.0.3.15+ (Jun 17 2004 12:21:53) (Java 1.5.0-beta2)

        16.786 seconds

-Peter