Re: [Sbcl-devel] SBCL execution time

[Shreyas <shr...@gm...>]

Attila Lendvai wrote:
>> and it seems that SBCL is 3 times slower than CMUCL. Can someone explain
>> the reason behind this?
> 
> 98.16% of the time is spent in SB-PRETTY::MAKE-PRETTY-STREAM because
> w-o-t-s is not creating a pretty stream and you are requesting pretty
> printing.
> 
> binding *print-pretty* to nil speeds things up by a LOT.

Thanks for the explanation. setting *print-pretty* does speed up things
a lot. I didn't think *print-pretty* would matter for w-o-t-s

Shreyas.