[Uim] uim 1.4.0-alpha released

[Etsushi Kato]

On 1/8/07, YAMAMOTO Kengo / YamaKen <yamaken at bp.iij4u.or.jp> wrote:
> At Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:30:46 +0900,
> ek.kato at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > As SigScheme version (with "--disable-backtrace
> > --disable-internal-definitions") is about 2.8 times slower than 1.3.1,
> > uim-pref-gtk start up time is too slow with 1.4.0-alpha.  It takes
> > about 27 seconds on my iBook.  IMHO, this should be resolved before
> > 1.4.0.
>
> Oops, I've been forgotten the heap preallocation tunes for
> uim.

Aha, now it actually seems to reduce the GC time for
uim-module-manager and uim-pref.  uim-pref-gtk now takes about 16
seconds for startup.  Thanks.

> Here is the updated result of "time make" in uim-*/scm directory.
>
> * 2.55 sec with 1.3.1.
> * 12.51 sec with 1.4.0-alpha (without any option).
> * 7.14 sec with 1.4.0-alpha (with --disable-backtrace).
> * 6.91 sec with 1.4.0-alpha (with --disable-backtrace
> --disable-internal-definitions)
> * 7.39 sec with 1.4.0-alpha (with --disable-backtrace
> --disable-internal-definitions --enable-storage=fatty)

* 4.99 sec with trunk (r4318 with %%prealloc-heaps, --disable-backtrace)

Cheers,
-- 
Etsushi Kato
ek.kato at gmail.com