[Openmcl-devel] I knew format was slow, but this slow ??

Sven Van Caekenberghe sven at beta9.be
Thu Oct 2 11:18:23 PDT 2003


On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 07:32 PM, Gary Byers wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
>
>> I knew format was slow, but can it be really this slow ??
>>
>> Note that the difference between 10 and 100 iterations in the first
>> loop results not in a 10-fold difference in time, but a 100-fold
>> difference - so its gets exponentially slower !
>>
>> The write-string version is almost a 1000 times faster, is this still
>> normal ? Also note the extreme differences in memory allocation.
>
> Not that it should be (very) relevant, but what was the value of
> *PRINT-PRETTY* when you tried this ?  Of (the even less relevant)
> *PRINT-CIRCLE* ?

? *print-pretty*
T
? *print-circle*
NIL


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