Comment by shakna
20 days ago
> particularly as Guile e.g. greatly lags Racket performance
Huh. This has not been my experience, rather the other way around.
I do see a whole heap of benchmarks that contradict it, so I probably should put in some effort to find out why, or if I'm just plain wrong... But at a guess? Guile doesn't have Racket's startup time penalty, and most of what I do is IO bound - and Guile's IO story is better than Racket's.
https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/
For the onlookers, this bunch of microbenchmarks suggests Racket is faster than Guile, but the fastest is Chez (which Racket uses as a substrate).
Yeah, know of it. But no IO, filesystem, network or otherwise. Never found it altogether great as an actual benchmark other than for raw computation.
Not bad at comparing compilers and optimisation. Great for checking R7RS compliance. Not what I'd trust to make decisions with.
That's how I see it, too. I used these benchmarks early in Hoot's development as a rough measure of r7rs compliance and only occasionally as a guide for improving performance. I never published my results but I had Hoot passing more of the benchmarks than Guile itself, which I found funny.