Re: [PATCH] Take some lowhanging fruit to speed up R6RS fixnum operations

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:

> So, that's around 5% improvment (on the ZIP benchmark) for an IMHO
> significantly more hackish implementation.  I'm not sure that's worth
> it. WDYT?

Was it with ‘fixnum?’ inline, or with the ‘fixnum?’ instruction?

It’s ironic that while R6RS fixnums are a performance hack, they end up
being less efficient than unbounded integers in Guile.

Do you know how other implementations deal with that?

Thanks,
Ludo’.