getting a Binary module into the standard libs

[Hal Daume III]

I tend to agree with Alastair.  I just reran the experiments with BinIOs
instead of BinMems to see if there was a greater difference (I expect a
much smaller difference, in fact, due to the high disk overhead and the
fact that putChar is slow).  I didn't both with -O0, but with -O2, we get:

  bits   read     2156
         write    2639

  bytes  read     1617
         write    2078

frankly, this shocks me.  reading using bits is 33% slower; writing is
about 27% slower.  i actually expected the bits version to be *faster*
(relatively, of course) here, due to the fact that we have much smaller
files (the byte-based file is 4200000 bytes while the bit-based file is
3325000 bytes).  With a 33% difference, I think I might want separate
instances again :).

I'm having great difficulty explaining to myself why there would be such a
discrepancy.  Anyone care to offer an idea?

 - Hal

On 18 Dec 2002, Alastair Reid wrote:

> 
> Hal Daume <hdaume@ISI.EDU> writes:
> > Hi, another update wrt speed of bit writes; it makes me think it
> > might not be worthwhile to split the instances or anything like
> > that.  I'm still looking for some comments though (hint hint).
> 
> If the performance difference is just 11%, it sounds like it's best to
> keep the instances combined.  (I'm assuming both versions were
> carefully written for speed - seems like a safe assumption given the
> author!)  The speed difference is likely to continue as the speed
> difference between processors,memory,etc. and disks,system
> calls,etc. continues to grow.
> 
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