[mercury-users] High-level vs LLDS grades

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Jul-2004, Peter Hawkins <peter at hawkins.emu.id.au> wrote:
> I'm interested to know whether anyone has benchmarked the performance of
> the various grades recently. In particular I'd like to know:
> 
> * Is the grade reg.gc likely to be faster than hlc.gc?

No.

> * Is the grade hlc.gc likely to be faster than none.gc?

Yes.

> * What features (if any does the grade hlc.gc) lack?

As others have already said, the main ones are support for debugging
and deep profiling.

Another point is that asm_fast.agc is reasonably similar in performance
to asm_fast.gc, whereas hlc.agc is much slower than hlc.gc.

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