From: Rob Warnock
Subject: Re: Bottleneck rule
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:39:50 +0000
Message-ID: <XYadnRQk0YJ7P-PVnZ2dnUVZ_s7inZ2d@speakeasy.net>

Francogrex  <······@grex.org> wrote:
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| I wrote a function which loops through a long list of strings (about a
| 10000) modifies some according to some specified rules and finally it
| groups similar strings together. When this is run (even loaded from a
| compiled .fas file), it takes about 2 hours to complete...
+---------------

Uh... I hate to ask this [but will anyway]...

Did you compile it first?!?


-Rob

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• Re: Bottleneck rule Francogrex
  • Re: Bottleneck rule Rob Warnock

From: Francogrex
Subject: Re: Bottleneck rule
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:26:41 +0000
Message-ID: <93d34957-d5c8-483d-a491-19c1d11d2615@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>

On Jul 17, 3:39 am, ····@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
> Francogrex  <······@grex.org> wrote:
> | I wrote a function which loops through a long list of strings (about a
> | 10000) modifies some according to some specified rules and finally it
> | groups similar strings together. When this is run (even loaded from a
> | compiled .fas file), it takes about 2 hours to complete...
> +---------------
> Uh... I hate to ask this [but will anyway]...
> Did you compile it first?!?

I wrote it, saved as myprog.lisp and then did the (compile-file "c:/
myprog.lisp")

From: Rob Warnock
Subject: Re: Bottleneck rule
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:36:35 +0000
Message-ID: <G8qdnWIJ__des-LVnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>

Francogrex <······@grex.org> wrote:
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| ····@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
| > Francogrex �<······@grex.org> wrote:
| > | I wrote a function which loops through a long list of strings (about a
| > | 10000) modifies some according to some specified rules and finally it
| > | groups similar strings together. When this is run (even loaded from a
| > | compiled .fas file), it takes about 2 hours to complete...
| > +---------------
| > Uh... I hate to ask this [but will anyway]...
| > Did you compile it first?!?
| 
| I wrote it, saved as myprog.lisp and then did the
| (compile-file "c:/myprog.lisp")
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Oh, o.k., just checking.  "Never mind..."  ;-}  ;-}


-Rob

p.s. The only reason I asked is that it's more common than you might
expect for people to start asking here about performance issues
*without* compiling first, so unless the OP explicitly says that
they *did* compile... well... ;-}

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