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To: scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Perl startup
From: shivers@ai.mit.edu (Olin Shivers)
Date: 24 Aug 1996 02:04:12 -0400
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
Reply-to: shivers@ai.mit.edu
    From: "B. Robert Helm" <bhelm@cs.uoregon.edu>

    Congratulations on the static linker advances!  Just out of curiosity:
    could you post the results of:

            /usr/bin/time perl -e "exit"

    on the machine you used in the abovementioned message?

Sure. Here you go. I repeat the vm+scsh startup time below, as well.
Perl is still slightly faster -- but its byte-compiler is written in C,
not byte-compiled Scheme, so the parsing and compilation of "(exit)" is
probably going to be a bit slower in S48 than perl.
        -Olin

% /usr/bin/time perl -e "exit"
        0.13 real         0.01 user         0.02 sys

% /usr/bin/time ./vm+scsh -- -c "(exit)"
        0.11 real         0.07 user         0.03 sys

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