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Novacore goes Bisimulation: Scryer Prolog is Slow!

From Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups sci.math
Subject Novacore goes Bisimulation: Scryer Prolog is Slow!
Date 2025-07-25 14:30 +0200
Message-ID <105vtcp$2r2g0$4@solani.org> (permalink)

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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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Novacore goes Bisimulation: Scryer Prolog is Slow! Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-25 14:30 +0200
  Is Mild Shock going rogue? (Re: Novacore goes Bisimulation: Scryer Prolog is Slow!) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-25 14:32 +0200
    Is Mostowski Collapse a professional mathematician (Re: Is Mild Shock going rogue?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-25 14:32 +0200
      New Project Name: NovaCore becomes VibeCore (Re: Is Mostowski Collapse a professional mathematician) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-25 14:43 +0200
  The End of Deutsch-Schorr-Waite [cycle_detection.rs] (Re: Novacore goes Bisimulation: Scryer Prolog is Slow!) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-28 10:51 +0200
    Backtracking Branching Association List (Was: The End of Deutsch-Schorr-Waite [cycle_detection.rs]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-28 10:57 +0200
      Do it like in acyclic_decompose/3 (Was: Backtracking Branching Association List) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-28 11:39 +0200
        Cache-Trashing vs Cache-Friendly [Code Example] (Re: Do it like in acyclic_decompose/3) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-28 17:27 +0200
    Re: The End of Deutsch-Schorr-Waite [cycle_detection.rs] (Re: Novacore goes Bisimulation: Scryer Prolog is Slow!) Jordon Molokovsky <ovm@lorr.ru> - 2025-07-28 12:56 +0000
      I guess your brain was "overheating" (Re: The End of Deutsch-Schorr-Waite [cycle_detection.rs]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-28 17:17 +0200
        Re: I guess your brain was "overheating" (Re: The End of Deutsch-Schorr-Waite [cycle_detection.rs]) Alton Grammatakakis <kl@aaasi.gr> - 2025-07-28 16:09 +0000
          The difference is only in one letter "t" or "d" (Was: I guess your brain was "overheating") Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-28 21:17 +0200
          Re: You literally wrote "overheat" (Re: I guess your brain was "overheating" (Re: The End of Deutsch-Schorr-Waite [cycle_detection.rs]) Neury Valetov <ntt@uovrav.ru> - 2025-07-28 19:44 +0000
            Don't put large memory in your computer it might "overheat" (Re: You literally wrote "overheat") Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-29 15:57 +0200
            Re: Don't put large memory in your computer it might "overheat" (Was: You literally wrote "overheat") Mizraim Zelenenkov <iall@zm.ru> - 2025-07-29 16:00 +0000
              Why Russ Bots Again: Micro Penis? (Was: Don't put large memory in your computer it might "overheat" ) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-29 23:16 +0200
      Re: I guess your brain was "overheating" (Re: The End of Deutsch-Schorr-Waite [cycle_detection.rs]) Emile Paduchev <mcc@clleeeme.ru> - 2025-07-28 15:53 +0000
        You literally wrote "overheat" (Was: I guess your brain was "overheating") Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-28 21:19 +0200
    Entering the Age of Rational Trees (2025) (Re: The End of Deutsch-Schorr-Waite [cycle_detection.rs]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-08-16 13:05 +0200
  The pairs are nasty, otherwise not always slow! (Re: Novacore goes Bisimulation: Scryer Prolog is Slow!) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-30 14:44 +0200
  It was painful for my GC, but fixed now (Was: The pairs are nasty, otherwise not always slow!) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-30 14:49 +0200

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