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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (set! (@@ MOD NAME) EXP) considered harmful
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:40:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wgcdm0c.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3pr9o9vh3.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:29:59 +0200")

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> On Fri 18 Sep 2009 00:16, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Perhaps the compiler should make it possible to choose a tradeoff
>> between dynamicity and performance, e.g., by actually honoring the ‘:O’
>> compile option?
>
> Sure, sounds good to me.

Yes, that would be great.  In practice I think it's clear that most
people will want a dynamicity-compatible optimization level while
they're developing or debugging a program, but the best possible
optimization, and needing no dynamicity, when that program is deployed.

      Neil




      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-02 16:17 (set! (@@ MOD NAME) EXP) considered harmful Mark H Weaver
2009-09-02 16:25 ` Mark H Weaver
2009-09-03 14:57 ` Andy Wingo
2009-09-15 21:23   ` Neil Jerram
2009-09-17 22:16     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-09-18 14:29       ` Andy Wingo
2009-09-18 20:40         ` Neil Jerram [this message]

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