From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Smart variables, dumb variables Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:43:40 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n0rog7tv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87y9bajzfp.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029379402 26072 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2002 02:43:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:43:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17fAbY-0006mP-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 04:43:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17fAcJ-0002yl-00; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fAby-0002sm-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fAbu-0002sB-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17fAbt-0002rD-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:43:41 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0C7EF8; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:43:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 664AA2041; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:43:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <87y9bajzfp.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "13 Aug 2002 22:06:50 +0200") Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1086 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1086 Marius Vollmer writes: > A future execution model (that is slowly forming in my head) will > make it so that most variable flags can be tested at compile time. > Thus, a compiler can emit more efficient code for dumb variables. Are you thinking about testing the flags on the C side or on the Scheme side, and if you have more thoughts (even preliminary ones) about how the compile time tests would work, could you elaborate? I'm trying to get a picture in my head of how all this might work internally, and how it might look in the external API so I can think about it. I was also trying to imagine any potential interactions with the various potential forms of compilation we might consider in the future (i.e. Scheme -> C, for example). (only marginally-relevant aside: anyone know the status of C inline functions these days -- do other non-gcc compilers support them, do we compile under non-gcc compilers, etc.?) Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel