Re: Breaking hygiene with syntax-rules?

[Walter Lewis]

Hi Jean,

> You could just turn that into a syntax-case macro, use gensym to 
> generate the names, and insert them using with-syntax or quasisyntax.

Yes, this is what I ended up doing before I saw your other reply.

> By the way, I'm rather confused as to why you deem this caching 
> useful. A priori, I would expect a simple bytevector->pointer call 
> would be just as fast as a to-pointer call. Do you somehow create lots 
> of pointers to the contents of the same bytevector so that weak 
> references they hold incur a noticeable GC overhead?

To be honest I don't know enough about C to know the performance of 
bytevector->pointer, so I was assuming Chickadee's approach was done for 
a reason. But if you think it's not a big deal then I'm happy to 
simplify things! I think I will remove this caching for now.

Thanks for your help, and Arne as well for digging into the issue.

Best,

Walter