[Gcl-devel] gcl safety definition

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  2.7 has a much faster safety mode.  I'd like to get some
consensus on how to define it.

Proposal:

safety 1 -- compiled functions and macros check their argument numbers
            and types

safety 2 -- inlined function calls in compiled functions and macros
            check their argument numbers and types

safety 3 -- all variables and function args of type t, no source inlining, no
            branch-elimination, no type propagation.  fast-linking is
            still permitted.

Separately, which of these should be goverened as well by
compilation-speed and/or speed settings?

Separately, can GCL compilation be considered fast enough if GCL
proper is kept to a small fraction of gcc compilation time?

real time       :     71.680 secs
run-gbc time    :     15.810 secs
child run time  :     48.320 secs
gbc time        :      5.640 secs


Take care,
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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