Re: SRFI-1 in Scheme

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

On Tue 13 Jul 2010 00:57, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> The attached patch is a first stab at re-implementing SRFI-1 in
> Scheme.
>
> IOW, with the debug engine (currently the default) and for large lists
> ‘fold’ in Scheme is ~9% slower than in C; for small lists it’s ~17%
> slower.
>
> With the regular engine, Scheme is ~2% faster for large lists and still
> ~5% slower for small lists.
>
> I’m tempted to put this in

Cool, looks good to me.

> and then make the regular engine the default unless ‘--debug’ is
> specified.

I would prefer to keep the debug VM as the default. At the very least,
one should be able to switch VMs. This can come when we delimit call/cc,
I think -- I have some patches for that for 2.2.

Andy
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