[MLton-devel] Basis-2002 benchmarks

[Matthew Fluet]

> > That is the idea.  There are various things I haven't done, like look for
> > opportunities to replace +,- with +?,-?.
> 
> What I found to be more important in speeding up TextIO was avoiding
> any extraneous (per character) allocation and minimizing the number of
> tests in the common case.

Yeah, allocation is a huge slowdown.  I was looking at gc-summary on
wc-* for .cvs.basis-1997 and .cvs.basis-2002, and the basis-2002
executables were allocating upwards of 50X the bytes of the basis-1997.



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