Re: Quick question about grob interfaces

[David Kastrup]

Dan Eble <address@hidden> writes:

> On Jul 27, 2018, at 17:21, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> It's not clear to me how the alist per se is a problem and how
>> restructuring could fix that.
>
>
> It’s been a couple months, and I only profiled one regtest, but I
> remember sloppy_assq, string hashing, and string comparison standing
> out as significant contributors to cycle count.

Many regtests don't involve breaking decisions at all so they are not
all that relevant regarding the time and memory requirements of large
scores.  But I think that improving the latter should be possible in a
manner where the former don't usually suffer.

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David Kastrup