July 15th 2004 #
random, July 15th 2004
A noteworthy aspect of SBCL development are the Boinkmarks run by Andreas Fuchs. This is a benchmarking suite that is run against each new changeset that lands in the repository, making it easy to spot and fix catastrophic performance degradation like the DEFCLASS spike of 0.8.12.30-31 (caused by your truely with package locks).
Like they say, there's no such thing as a good benchmark — but no such thing as a bad benchmark either...