From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Smart variables, dumb variables Date: 15 Aug 2002 08:29:49 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1lwhbxe.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87y9bajzfp.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87n0rog7tv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029392958 14614 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2002 06:29:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:29:18 +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 17fE8C-0003nb-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:29:16 +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 17fE92-0007Oh-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fE8q-0007OR-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fE8m-0007OF-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway42.dip142.dokom.de ([195.138.42.142] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 17fE8l-0007OA-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 1321 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Aug 2002 06:29:49 -0000 Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <87n0rog7tv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:1087 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1087 Rob Browning writes: > 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 currently writing up a proposal for a compilation/execution model. It's coming along nicely, but I don't want to show it until I have written down all the pieces. Should be finished in a few days or so. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel