From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:31:20 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87acfcfvbr.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hd9mgc7v.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:14:12 -0800")
Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:
>
> Does anyone know what the arguments are, if any, for implementing
> delay and force directly in eval.c rather than more generically, at
> the Scheme level, perhaps in boot-9.scm via define-record, lambda,
> etc.?
I imagine some C code is less bytes for a promise object.
(Speaking of which, I'd thought before that once a promise is forced
it shouldn't need a mutex any more, which would save a bit of time and
space.)
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-06 21:14 What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c? Rob Browning
2005-12-07 21:31 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2005-12-07 22:47 ` Rob Browning
2005-12-08 0:29 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-12-08 0:52 ` Rob Browning
2005-12-10 0:11 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-12-10 4:23 ` Rob Browning
2005-12-14 21:10 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-12-08 0:57 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-12-08 1:28 ` Rob Browning
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