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To: Bill Dubuque <wgd@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: wot i need 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Feb 1997 06:40:43 EST."
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Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 10:24:42 -0600
From: Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>

    Bill> But that conflicts with my timing of 19.11 as twice as fast
    Bill> as 19.12b25 in 486 Linux 1.2.1 for your simple while loop
    Bill> test below (unless Lisp_object changed between 19.11 and
    Bill> 19.12).

Comparing against 19.12b25 is pointless.  If you want to do a
comparision with 19.12 use the released version.  First, all beta
versions had full debugging turned on by default and it has been well
established what that does to performance.  Second b25 is only
actually about halfway through the 19.12 development cycle.  The
majority of the optimization work that went into 19.12 occurred very
late in the development cycle.


			-Chuck

