[Gcl-devel] Re: benchmarking

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  How important is this with si::*optimize-maximum-pages*
on?  The purpose of this was to essentially automate optimal
allocations at runtime.

Take care,

Robert Boyer <address@hidden> writes:

> This allocate stuff is so ... 
> 
> You might want to consider: Yesterday, I got so sick of
> waiting for GCL to build ACL2 that I have added this to my
> make of GCL for xg.
> 
>    (si::set-hole-size 10000) 
>    (si::allocate (quote cons) 10000 t)
>    (si::allocate (quote array) 1000 t)
>    (si::allocate (quote structure) 1000 t)  
>    (si::allocate (quote symbol) 1000 t) 
>    (si::allocate (quote sfun) 1000 t) 
>    (si::allocate (quote contiguous-blocks) 2130 t) 
>    (si::allocate (quote relocatable-blocks) 5000 t) 
> 
> Want me to not do that and rebuild xg using 2.7.0's default?
> 
> I have no idea what initial allocates are fair, or in what
> sense, to anyone, for anything.  Some wag once said we have
> no idea what it would be like to have an idea what it would
> be like to have an idea of what consciousness is.  That's
> probably true for "fairness" in Lisp benchmarking, too.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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