bug#12033: closed (Re: bug#12033: format should be faster)

[Ian Price]

Noah Lavine <address@hidden> writes:

> It seems clear that in this case, Guile "should" know how to dispatch
> on the format string just once, outside of the loop, instead of doing
> it in every iteration. What do people think of declaring format as a
> macro? That wouldn't help instances of format that have a variable
> format string, but I bet that's a lot less common than this case.

Makes sense to me, though I'm not quite sure how that plays with (ice-9
format)'s side-effecting of the existing format binding. Though it was
meant as a toy, I wrote https://gist.github.com/3167775 ages ago, along
similar lines to this.

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