Re: Elisp performance

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 04 Aug 2009 18:17, Daniel Kraft <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy Wingo wrote:
>> Don't conjecture, profile ;-)
>
> I'd like to do so, but it seems that Guile does not include a profiler,
> does it?  A search turned up some patch/code, but I didn't get the
> impression it would work very well -- do you have some hints, getting
> some real profiling would be very useful, indeed!

If you download guile-lib from git, (statprof) works well.


>> Also, disassembly is your friend here.
>
> Guess I'll have to get a little more proficient with the VM to make real
> use of it, though I already used it a little to check that certain elisp
> code compiles to the same assembly as the equivalent Scheme one (where I
> expected it to be so).

It's not that bad :) But I'll be looking into your branch tomorrow, so
we can poke it together.

Peace,

Andy
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