Re: Serious performance issues with 1.9.0

[Neil Jerram]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Martin Ward <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Running a test program on Guile 1.8.7 takes 100 seconds CPU time.
>> On Guile 1.9.0 (beta) the same program takes 237 seconds CPU time!
>
> I wonder if that's because the code is being auto-compiled?  Do you
> get a better result if you set environment variable GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE
> to 0 ?

Or if you run your program a second time?  (In which case it should
pick up and use the compiled code.)

     Neil