Re: (seeks while reading) Re: Performance, argh

[Russ McManus <russell.mcmanus@gs.com>]

Clark McGrew <mcgrew@ale.physics.sunysb.edu> writes:

> Sorry I scrambled the attributions...
> 
> >>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
>     >> That said, guile does seem to spend an inordinate amount of
>     >> time in system calls (on PPro200, Linux 2.2.x, libc5, with
>     >> guile installed in a directory read via NFS):
> 
>     Maciej> That's a lot of access, stat and fstat calls there, and
>     Maciej> those are expensive as syscalls go.
> 
> It seems like the file names in the search path could be cached.

I like the idea of using vicinities.  This way when you want to load a
bunch of files at startup, you determine *once* which vicinity to use
then you can load all the files relative to the vicinity.  This is the
approach that slib takes, if I remember correctly.

-russ


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