Seems fine, here. Thank you.

On Dec 13, 2016 10:44 AM, "Juergen Sauermann" <juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have reverted the change between *SVN 818 *and *819* and I hope
> everything is back
> to normal in *SVN 820*.
>
> /// Jürgen
>
>
> On 12/13/2016 10:10 AM, Juergen Sauermann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I see. This was supposed to fix some other problem, but apparently didn't
> work.
>
> I will look into this; in the meantime please fall back to r818 (*svn up
> -r818*).
>
> /// Jürgen
>
>
> On 12/13/2016 06:14 AM, David B. Lamkins wrote:
>
> Revision 819 causes *severe* performance issues for my APL Packager.
>
> https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/apl-pkg
> (Use the `percy` branch.)
>
> $ git clone https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/apl-pkg
> # cd apl-pkg
> $ git branch percy
> $ ./install.sh
> $ awe
>
> Normally the system comes up in a second or so; under r819 it takes tens
> of minutes to complete, during which one CPU core is pegged. (It's slow
> enough that I first thought that some altered edge condition must've caused
> an infinite loop.)
>
> Memory usage is stable.
>
> FWIW, this happens in the packager's boot loader, so there's not a lot of
> APL code involved.
>
> https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/apl-pkg/blob/percy/boot/gnu-apl-linux.apl
>
> Once past the boot loader (which took about 90 minutes on my Haswell i7
> notebook), virtually every packager operation is noticeably slow. If I had
> to guess, I'd suspect that either branching or APL function calls are
> eating a lot of cycles unnecessarily; my code uses lots of both.
>
>
>
>
>
>

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