hey guys! Any conclusion?
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 21:35 +0200, Andy Wingo wrote:
> On Tue 21 Aug 2012 13:37, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> >> It seems clear that in this case, Guile "should" know how to dispatch
> >> on the format string just once, outside of the loop, instead of doing
> >> it in every iteration.
> >
> > I think Andy would say: “inline cache!”. :-)
>
> :-)
>
> There are lots of possibilities here. You could "compile" a format
> string into a closure, and save it in a hash table. You could compile
> it to Scheme and then compile that procedure. You could recognize some
> common degenerate cases.
>
> Dunno! In this case I would compile the string into a closure. Seems
> pretty cheap and it would kill the dispatch overhead.
>
> Andy
