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Novacore goes Bisimulation: Scryer Prolog is Slow!

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Hi,

Having fun with Bisimulation, and a new test
suite of nasty circular pairs. But how store
circular pairs, if clauses do not support

circular terms. Well chop it up into equations,
I create 1000 such equation pairs:

test([A = c(A, B), C = c(A, D), E = n, _ = c(F, B),
       F = c(C, C), G = c(G, D), D = c(E, C), B = n],
      [H = c(H, I), J = c(K, I), L = c(L, I), I = c(M, N),
       O = c(K, J), N = n, K = c(K, J), M = c(K, O)]).
Etc..

The pairs are nasty because the usual compare_with_stack/2
chokes on them. Here some results:

/* SWI-Prolog 9.3.26 */
?- time((between(1,30,_), part, fail; true)).
% 540,118 inferences, 0.047 CPU in 0.041 seconds (115% CPU, 11522517 Lips)
true.

/* Trealla Prolog 2.78.40 */
?- time((between(1,30,_), part, fail; true)).
% Time elapsed 0.113s, 1143903 Inferences, 10.157 MLips
    true.

/* Scryer Prolog 0.9.4-417 */
?- time((between(1,30,_), part, fail; true)).
    % CPU time: 0.226s, 1_117_809 inferences
    true.

/* Dogelog Player 1.3.5 */
?- time((between(1,30,_), part2, fail; true)).
% Zeit 309 ms, GC 0 ms, Lips 8693718, Uhr 25.07.2025 13:47
true.

The amazing thing is, I compared a 100% Prolog
implementation, so there is a lot of head room
for improvement:

part2 :-
    bitest(X,Y), X ~~ Y, fail; true.

The operator (~~)/2 is part of library(math),
and has been implemented with same_term/2 so far.

Bye

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