profiling the front-end

autogenerated test file 1: 

julia> function makescript(filename) 
       open(filename, "w") do file; write(file, "begin\n")
           for i = 1:10_000
               funcname = "myfunc$i"
               write(file, "function $funcname(x)\n x^2\nend\n")
           end; write(file, "end") 
       end
   end

julia/src [jcb/frontendperf●] » flisp test.scm
Parser Elapsed time: 1.325154066085815 seconds
Syntax Elapsed time: 5.899738073348999 seconds
Function                  #Calls     Time (seconds)
--------                  ------     --------------
julia-expand-macros       1          0.04523181915283203
flatten-scopes            1          0.1927700042724609
analyze-variables         1          0.3877229690551758
toplevel-expr-globals     1          0.4186370372772217
julia-expand01            1          0.5400261878967285
to-goto-form              1          0.9706499576568604
add-local-decls           1          3.219017028808594
identify-locals           1          3.219019889831543
julia-expand1             1          4.770179986953735
expand-toplevel-expr--    1          5.774687051773071
expand-toplevel-expr-     1          5.899724960327148
expand-toplevel-expr      1          5.899734020233154

# drilling down into add-local-decls 

julia/src [jcb/frontendperf●] » flisp test.scm
Parser Elapsed time: 1.322654008865356 seconds
Syntax Elapsed time: 8.782910823822021 seconds
Function                #Calls     Time (seconds)
--------                ------     --------------
declared-local!-vars    80003      0.1391019821166992
find-locals             10001      0.3408386707305908
remove-local-decls      10001      0.7268431186676025
declared-global-vars    20002      1.435235023498535
add-local-decls         1          5.448393106460571


autogenerated test file 2:

julia> function makescript(filename)
           open(filename, "w") do file
               write(file, "begin\n"); for i = 1:10_000
                   funcname = "myfunc$i"
                   write(file, "function $funcname(x)\n    x^2\nend\n")
               end
               write(file, "x = 3.2\n")
               for i = 1:10_000
                   funcname = "myfunc$i"
                   write(file, "$funcname(x)\n")
               end; write(file, "end")
           end
       end


julia/src [jcb/frontendperf●] » flisp test.scm        
Elapsed time: 1.846035957336426 seconds
Elapsed time: 7.259191989898682 seconds
Function                  #Calls     Time (seconds)
--------                  ------     --------------
julia-expand-macros       1          0.05517816543579102
flatten-scopes            1          0.2425699234008789
toplevel-expr-globals     1          0.3962099552154541
analyze-variables         1          0.4532489776611328
julia-expand01            1          0.6166150569915771
to-goto-form              1          1.493684053421021
add-local-decls           1          3.857787847518921
identify-locals           1          3.857789993286133
julia-expand1             1          6.047311067581177
expand-toplevel-expr--    1          7.115795850753784
expand-toplevel-expr-     1          7.259175062179565
expand-toplevel-expr      1          7.259181022644043

julia/src [jcb/frontendperf●] » flisp test.scm 
Elapsed time: 1.862179040908813 seconds
Elapsed time: 9.896605968475342 seconds
Function                #Calls     Time (seconds)
--------                ------     --------------
declared-local!-vars    90005      0.1896469593048096
find-locals             10001      0.3898797035217285
remove-local-decls      10001      0.8961589336395264
declared-global-vars    20002      1.666327238082886
add-local-decls         1          6.51598596572876

#--- 20_000 function file ---

julia/src [jcb/frontendperf●] » flisp test.scm
Elapsed time: 3.808554887771606 seconds
Elapsed time: 17.96808910369873 seconds
Function                  #Calls     Time (seconds)
--------                  ------     --------------
julia-expand-macros       1          0.1146149635314941
flatten-scopes            1          0.5463290214538574
analyze-variables         1          0.7830660343170166
julia-expand01            1          1.229053020477295
toplevel-expr-globals     1          1.241382122039795
to-goto-form              1          1.518464088439941
add-local-decls           1          12.27766108512878
identify-locals           1          12.27766489982605
julia-expand1             1          15.12554407119751
expand-toplevel-expr--    1          17.71152210235596
expand-toplevel-expr-     1          17.96807098388672
expand-toplevel-expr      1          17.96807813644409

# --- 30_000 --- function file
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