XL1201 Mini-benchmark

Sat, 25 Jun 2016 04:09:00 +0000

UPDATED July 28, 2016: More mini-benchmark results added.

I was asked to do a simple benchmark of the XL1201 by Jerome Ibanes and share the results. Here is his requested code:

(defun fib(n) 
 (if (or (= n 0) (= n 1)) 
 1 
 (+ (fib (- n 1)) (fib (- n 2)))))
(compile 'fib)
(time (fib 30))

He asked for a few timings with values from 20 to 38.

For comparison, here is the output from LispWorks Personal 6 on a 2015 MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Core i7:

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