Dear Amirouche, The Github links don't seem to work (for me).
Kind regards, Roel Janssen On Tue, 2020-01-14 at 12:15 +0000, Amirouche wrote: > I benchmarked Chez Scheme vs. Guile. Guile is 3 to 5 times slower > than Chez. I attribute that mostly to C Foreign Function Interface. > > The application will parse a text file (n-turtle format) and store > in an embedded database (wiredtiger). Most the CPU time should be > spent during parsing [0], then packing scheme objects into > bytevectors [1] and at last C FFI. > > [0] > https://github.com/amirouche/nomunofu/blob/master/nomunofu/index.scm#L13 > > [1] > https://github.com/amirouche/nomunofu/blob/master/nomunofu/okvs/pack.scm#L208 > > The chez code is in wip-chez branch. > > The Guile FFI code of that particular application can be improved. > > Still, I read on IRC that there is some interests to improve C FFI, > that is why I fill this issue to be able to keep track of it. > > One step forward, would be to have C FFI benchmarks that are easy > to run with Chez, Guile, and Gambit. > > Anyone up for the task? > > > >
