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Performance Comparisons

The following times were for the full ACL2 regression suite (distributed and workshop books). Not shown is a successful regression run on Windows using GCL 2.6.7.

In each case below, the first number, User time, is probably the most relevant for comparisons. The format is essentially:

         %Uuser %Ssystem %Eelapsed %PCPU (%Xtext+%Ddata %Mmax)k
         %Iinputs+%Ooutputs (%Fmajor+%Rminor)pagefaults %Wswaps

Linux times:

Each of the Linux runs was on the same, almost surely unloaded machine running Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.17.4. IF THIS LINE IS HERE, THEN THE INFO BELOW WAS NOT UPDATED: PLEASE EMAIL MATT KAUFMANN Note: Noah Friedman has observed that the difference in performance for CLISP is due to its bytecode-interpreted runtime vs. [for example] GCL's native object code execution.

Mac OS X times:

Each of the Macintosh runs was on the same unloaded Macintosh 2P G5 running Mac OS 10.4.8.

Sun/Solaris times:

Each of the Sun/Solaris runs was on the same Sun4u sparc machine running Solaris 2.9.

ACL2 Course Materials

At some point, perhaps "ACL2 Course Materials" will be a top-level link on the ACL2 home page. For now, we provide some links.