Re: [PATCH] Add Unicode strings and symbols
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:40 -0700, Mike Gran wrote: > Hi- > > I think I scared Ludo when I committed something, so let me try this > instead. Attached please find the next patch toward Unicode strings. It > is a big patch, but, it is the smallest patch I could make that added > the next quantum of functionality yet returned master to a working > state. > > Since I see no objection, I'll push this. Thanks, Mike
Re: [PATCH] Add Unicode strings and symbols
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 02:44 -0700, Mike Gran wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:40 -0700, Mike Gran wrote: > > Hi- > > > > I think I scared Ludo when I committed something, so let me try this > > instead. Attached please find the next patch toward Unicode strings. It > > is a big patch, but, it is the smallest patch I could make that added > > the next quantum of functionality yet returned master to a working > > state. > > > > > > Since I see no objection, I'll push this. > > Thanks, > > Mike Freakin' git. I was surprised to see that a commit named "Merge commit 'origin/master'" appeared in the main tree when I did that. Sorry. -Mike
Re: guile performance - Ackermann function: way slower than emacs, slower still if compiled
Hello! Andy Wingo writes: > Perhaps the deal is that 1+ is not being inlined. It seems to be calling > out to the 1+ procedure, which is a primitive, actually making it a > bit slower. I'll see what I can do. Currently, invoking subrs conses, which is Bad(TM). Code that keeps invoking `1+' and `1-' must suffer from this. Thanks, Ludo'.
Re: Elisp performance
Hi! Andy Wingo writes: > Dynamic-wind, on the other hand, does pose a problem. The problem is > that dynamic-wind is a primitive -- to call it, the VM saves its > registers, conses together its arguments, and passes them to the > evaluator. The evaluator destructures the consed list, eventually finds > the C function [...] IMO a pressing issue here is to avoid consing when invoking "rest-less" subrs (à la `scm_i_gsubr_apply ()' [0]). (FWIW this has been on my to-do list for some time but feel free to give it a try!) Thanks, Ludo'. [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/8244
