Re: How to read integers from file faster?

[Andy Wingo]

On Sat 31 Aug 2013 12:19, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I just took a look at your program, which ran in 40s on my machine.
>> Under callgrind it turned out that we were doing a lot of iconv stuff
>> that we didn't need to do.
>
> It’s often the case that I/O is faster if you explicitly say that the
> port is UTF-8-encoded, because there’s a fast path for that (not using
> iconv) in 2.0:
>
>   (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding "UTF-8"))
>     (call-with-input-file file
>       ...))

Yep.  In this particular case, it turned out that even in UTF-8 locales,
scm_ungetc_unlocked and scm_from_port_string were going through iconv.
Fixing that sped up the test by around 600% (!!).

Andy
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