[plt-scheme] DrScheme Faster on Powerset than MzScheme - Why?

Robby Findler robby at cs.uchicago.edu
Thu Mar 15 22:38:34 EDT 2007


On 3/15/07, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Mar 15, Kyle Smith wrote:
> > [...]
> > I was really surprised that DrScheme beat out MzScheme.  Do I have
> > something setup wrong on the command line of MzScheme, as I don't
> > often use the stand-alone interpreter, so I could be missing
> > something?
>
> Your results show that running the code in MzScheme is consistently
> faster -- if you ignore the GC time -- you have:
>
>   (- 469 265) -> 204
>   (- 469 266) -> 203
>
> in DrScheme, and
>
>   (- 563 405) -> 158
>   (- 563 376) -> 187
>
> in MzScheme.

Was debugging enabled in the drscheme run?

Robby


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