From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
Cc: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New division operators, and optimization for fractions
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:17:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxly8oqr.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <038067C1-A2E3-470E-BA83-D1BE40FE96C1@raeburn.org> (Ken Raeburn's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:56:47 -0500")
Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:
> On Feb 12, 2011, at 06:55, Andy Wingo wrote:
>> Regarding multiple values: instead of unpacking values objects (ugh),
>> can you instead make versions of _divide that return two values
>> directly, as output arguments?
>
> Or maybe a function returning a struct of two SCM fields (or a single
> array-of-2 field)?
I believe the main motivation for avoiding values objects is to avoid
heap allocation, which your idea would also require.
Best,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-14 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-10 23:42 [PATCH] New division operators, and optimization for fractions Mark H Weaver
2011-02-12 11:55 ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-14 13:56 ` Ken Raeburn
2011-02-14 18:17 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2011-02-15 10:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-02-15 11:43 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-02-15 14:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] <860989.4731.qm@web114104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
2011-02-12 20:19 ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-13 14:55 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-02-14 19:44 ` Andy Wingo
[not found] <595618.30923.qm@web114107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
2011-02-12 21:54 ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-12 22:38 ` Mark Weaver
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