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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 10 Nov 1994 13:01:17 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 10 Nov 1994 14:23:34 GMT
From: ruiter@ruls41.fsw.LeidenUniv.nl (Jan-Peter de Ruiter)
Message-Id: <39tad6$6nr@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>
Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <Cz0AFI.67x@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
Subject: Re: Optimizing Icon on a UNIX Platform
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Hi, Ryan,
Ryan Walcott (Ryan.Walcott@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM) wrote:
: We use ICON applications at AT&T Global Information Solutions to create
: statistical reports on data generated by benchmark runs. Currently these
: reports take several hours to run.
I smell some recursion here :-)
: Is there a way to optimize the applications for our platform so that the
: reports will execute faster? We are considering porting the applications to C
: and recompiling, but would like to avoid this if possible because they are
: very long and complicated.
I don't know whether you are using the interpreter of the compiler for
these icon programs, but if you are using the interpreter you might try
to compile the programs using the Icon compiler. If you don't do really
esoteric things this might speed up your executables considerably.
Another (tedious, but probably effective) option would be to port
critical sections to C, and hook the C code up to the icon programs.
This might also gain some speed.
Hope this helps.
Jan