Re: [Chicken-users] performance of bignums

[John Long]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 09:50:18PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:39:50AM -0700, Martin DeMello wrote:
> > Post to /r/scheme about chicken's bignum performance. (Not my post,
> > just figured it could use some eyeballs.)
> > 
> > http://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/3b1ujw/performance_of_chicken_scheme_numbers_bignums/
> 
> Hello Martin,
> 
> Thanks for posting this.  We had already been discussing it earlier
> today in #chicken.  I had another look at the code but I can't really
> find any obvious inefficiencies.  It is indeed a bit faster with
> CHICKEN 5, but not by much.
> 
> Of course, Guile is "cheating" by using GMP.  If I compare it to another
> Scheme which has its own bignum implementation like Gauche, we perform
> about the same.  It's interesting that sbcl is doing so well.  Maybe I'm
> overlooking something seemingly minor but important?

I didn't read much of this thread but I believe sbcl also uses gmp.

/jl

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