[PRL] Re: [plt-internal] cisco router problem

[Joe Marshall]

Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> So what have I found?
>
> 1. Lots of small mistakes. None should kill the performance. Indeed,
> they should all speed it up because they short-cut decision making
> with wrong decisions :-).
>
> 2. He reads two files and for each line in one (large) file he reads
> and processes the other file. Since files are just lists, ... I asked
> and he believes that it would not work to place the whole file into
> memory. But I have just run a short stress test and I was able to
> write and read 1,000,000 lines of things similar to his stuff in
> mzscheme (drscheme w/ all debugging/profiling/coverage turned off) in
> a minute or so. I will suggest this to him and we'll see where he goes
> from here.
>
> -- Matthias
>
> P.S. I know one of you thought that this would be the case, but I
> forgot who. One winner.

Not me.