From: Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:35:46 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10206121809210.12624-100000@cicero.ida.ing.tu-bs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205300728.AAA00154@morrowfield.home>
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Tom Lord wrote:
> The big catch: In a stackless implementation, built-ins would no
> longer be allowed to call `eval' or `apply' -- they would instead have
> to be split up into multiple C functions. Believe I know that
> sometimes the C friendly calling conventions inherited from SCM are
> the big win of Guile -- but personally I'm skeptical: I think a
> stackless implementation can also be easy to use and will have much
> nicer performance and robustness characteristics.
One could even have a 'stackless' implementation that allows recursive
calls. IIRC Marius once told me about a publication that dealt with the
problem of intermingled C and scheme stacks. I can't currently find the
link, though, sorry.
Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-30 7:28 guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text Tom Lord
2002-05-30 12:28 ` guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-05-30 15:31 ` guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text Rob Browning
2002-05-30 17:28 ` guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text Tom Lord
2002-05-30 20:31 ` guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text Gary Houston
2002-06-12 16:35 ` Dirk Herrmann [this message]
2002-06-12 20:37 ` trump C#, C++, and Java Tom Lord
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2002-05-29 19:48 guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text Gary Houston
2002-06-03 23:16 ` guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text Marius Vollmer
2002-07-09 18:47 ` guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text Marius Vollmer
2002-07-09 20:06 ` guile/workbook/extension/dynamic-root.text Gary Houston
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