From: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
To: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
Cc: Guile User <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Pure (side-effect-free) calls into c/c++?
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 22:32:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHrUA37mFiDyjo5+Z6To4g7Te+SOTqGzCx9wN4UpSbVuzzvvrg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbd9acca-3c94-a8b9-b9f2-f3a6c86106df@gmail.com>
Hi Taylan,
Our emails are crossing in the ether...
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 9:21 PM Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> It might be possible to create a sort of "compile-time memoization"
Yes, that's what I'm looking for...
So the following:
>
> (display (f-memo 42))
> (display (f-memo 66))
> (display (f-memo 42))
> (display (f-memo 66))
>
> would magically emit code like:
>
> (define _x1 (f 42))
> (define _x2 (f 66))
> (display _x1)
> (display _x2)
> (display _x1)
> (display _x2)
>
> But I'm not sure how I'd write that hypothetical f-memo macro.
>
Well, how about a simpler case, then: an incrementing counter?
(define-syntax incr
(syntax-rules ()
((incr) ... something??? ...)))
so that (display (incr)) (display (incr)) (display (incr)) emits
(define _x1 1)
(display _x1)
(define _x2 2)
(display _x2)
(define _x3 3)
(display _x3)
The hard part, from what I can tell, is making the macro stateful, (or
continuable, or whatever you want to call it), to have it remember where it
last left off with the counter. I presume that emitting the defines
"shouldn't be that hard", just some kind of string pasting with the
stateful macro state.
-- Linas
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-12 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-10 22:36 Pure (side-effect-free) calls into c/c++? Linas Vepstas
2020-01-11 14:13 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-01-11 14:38 ` Matt Wette
2020-01-11 18:11 ` Linas Vepstas
2020-01-11 18:52 ` Linas Vepstas
2020-01-11 21:56 ` Taylan Kammer
2020-01-12 2:15 ` Linas Vepstas
2020-01-12 4:12 ` Linas Vepstas
2020-01-12 2:12 ` Linas Vepstas
2020-01-12 3:21 ` Taylan Kammer
2020-01-12 4:32 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2020-01-12 5:52 ` Linas Vepstas
2020-01-11 17:40 ` Linus Björnstam
2020-01-12 3:03 ` Christopher Lam
2020-01-12 10:35 ` Linus Björnstam
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