Hello, For the past few days, I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to make an application I wrote faster. A Java program that performs, more or less, the same task takes 12 seconds (on my machine) to parse 1000 files; my Clojure program takes nearly 3 minutes. This more than an order of magnitude slower! Using the profiling tools available with the JVM, I quickly determined which function was the costliest. I copied it into a simple script file to profile it in isolation. I have made the script and the profile results (long!) available at this URL: http://gist.github.com/82136
I'm finding the results puzzling: is dereferencing a var *that* expensive? Can anyone tell me if they see something fundamentally wrong with my approach that would explain this abysmal performance? Thank you, Vincent. P.S.: I am using Sun's JVM 1.6.0_10 as shipped in Ubuntu Ibex. My machine is an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with 3 GB of RAM. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
