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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: tomas@fabula.de, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Smart variables, dumb variables
Date: 14 Aug 2002 23:09:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871y91taen.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020814210634.GA7220@www>

rm@fabula.de writes:

> > I had in mind that the compiler could use the bit to decide if it is
> > allowed to inline some functions (such as '+', 'car', ...) but I no
> > longer think that would be the right way.
> 
> Wouldn't that imply that certain functions will never be 'generic' ?

What do you mean with generic?

The way I imagine it, is that you can put declarations on variables
that the compiler is allowed to trust at compile-time, and one such
declaration could be "this variable holds the R5RS primitive procedure
'+' and will always hold it."  This is a reasonable declaration to
make.  The compiler could then inline the fixnum part of '+' and call
out-of-line code for the rest.

So my next proposal is to add declarations to variables... :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-14 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-13 20:06 Smart variables, dumb variables Marius Vollmer
2002-08-14  8:07 ` tomas
2002-08-14 19:35   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-14 20:28     ` tomas
2002-08-14 20:48       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-14 21:06         ` rm
2002-08-14 21:09           ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2002-08-15  8:06             ` rm
2002-08-15  8:01               ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-08-15  9:51                 ` rm
2002-08-15 14:44               ` Rob Browning
2002-08-15 16:34               ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-15 17:27                 ` rm
2002-08-15 19:43                   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-15 20:02                     ` rm
2002-08-15 20:02                       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-15 20:25                         ` rm
2002-08-17 11:59                         ` Neil Jerram
2002-08-19 23:29                         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-20 12:01                           ` rm
2002-08-26 22:06                             ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-15 10:52         ` tomas
2002-08-15 16:36           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-14 21:31 ` Rob Browning
2002-08-14 21:45   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-15  2:43 ` Rob Browning
2002-08-15  6:29   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-15 14:38     ` Rob Browning

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