[mercury-users] Notes for a talk.

[Fergus Henderson]

I wrote:

> Of the remaining 35% overhead, which is only 0.12 seconds
> (Mercury takes 0.47 seconds while C takes 0.35 seconds),
> I think that most of it (0.09 seconds or 25%) is start-up costs in
> the Mercury runtime.  I haven't analyzed the causes for this,

When I started analyzing the causes, I realized this was in fact incorrect.
Although the startup overhead was 0.09 seconds when using the conservative
collector, in the non-GC case startup overhead was only 0.01 seconds.

So I suppose all of the 35% overhead must be due to the causes noted earlier:
suboptimal use of registers and a few unnecessary loads and stores. 

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