Re: SCM_CALL_N

[Keisuke Nishida]

At Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:24:51 +0200 (MEST),
Dirk Herrmann wrote:
> 
> > Also, should we create a new functions scm_list_N, replacing
> > the existing macros SCM_LIST_N?
> 
> In the long term, yes, because we could use inlining.  I don't think,
> however, that we should actually replace the SCM_LIST_N macros now:  If we
> deprecate the old SCM_LIST_N macros, we can't use them in guile itself any
> more.  But, this will cause a performance degradation, since we can't make
> use of inlining yet.  We could, however, _add_ the functions to the
> interface.

At the present, the SCM_LIST_N macros use more than one scm_cons
or scm_cons2.  We could instead allocate new cells directly in the
new scm_list_N functions, which would cost no more than now.
What about that?

Keisuke