Re: [VM] Should `compile' always be visible?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed 25 Feb 2009 22:16, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> The 1.8 results were against the Fedora guile, and the vm results
>>> against libguile/.libs/lt-guile, run inside pre-inst-guile-env.
>>
>> The issue is that `pre-inst-guile-env' adds overhead, which may not be
>> negligible when measuring startup time.
>
> Perhaps I was unclear. They were run as:
>
> address@hidden:~/src/guile/vm$ ./pre-inst-guile-env bash
> address@hidden:~/src/guile/vm$ time for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do 
> libguile/.libs/lt-guile -c 1; done
>
> real  0m0.098s
> user  0m0.059s
> sys   0m0.026s
>
> I don't think there's overhead here.

Right.  I wasn't 100% sure what you meant.

Thanks,
Ludo'.