Question regarding Sbcl



> On my box (Intel E5300 2.6Ghz), testsuite real times (in seconds)
> and failed tests are
> 
> sbcl-1.0.50     204  rtest16 (386, 387)
> gcl-2.6.8_pre   208
> cmucl-20b_p001  211
> clozurecl-1.7   293  rtest_gamma (673)
> ecl-11.1.1      404  rtest8 (126, 127)
> clisp-2.49      628
> 
> If the testsuite is representative, ecl is 2 times slower than sbcl.
> 
> Andrey

In our setting (with our mix of applications, typically list- and set-processing)
I get for the comparison of Ecl (11.1.1) and Sbcl (1.0.53):

 - Sbcl needs roughly 50% more time with loading files (especially for our
   tests that's not so nice, since every test runs on its own and loads a
   lot of files).
 - Sbcl is around 30% faster (sometimes more, sometimes less, but seems to
   be around that).

So for our applications the advantage is not so great.

Oliver