Timings vs SICStus

[Warwick Harvey]

Hi,

We're trying to do some timing comparisons between HAL programs compiled to 
Mercury, and SICStus programs.  Is there a paper to go along with the table 
of benchmarking results on the web site?  (I couldn't tell from the 
abstracts given on the web.)  Mainly I just want to verify what options you 
used with SICStus, and why you seem (from what I can tell from the 
benchmarking code) to have ignored the time SICStus spends garbage 
collecting, stack shifting, making system calls, etc.

Thanks,
Warwick