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 o

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

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

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