Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] More efficient numbers integration through "scratchspace"

[cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> You should really study how the compiler operates before asking such
> basic questions, because this is pretty fundamental to CHICKEN's
> operation, but I'm having a hard time explaining it right now.

Thanks, I get the idea now.

> I disagree.  Attempting to bend over backwards to support old code
> doesn't sound very productive to me.  Users will have to make quite
> some changes to port CHICKEN 4 code to CHICKEN 5 anyhow.  This is a
> relatively small thing to change, even if it can be very subtle in
> some cases.

In that case it will have to be announced as part of the Chicken 5
news, in order to avoid potentially severe performance regressions
in users' existing numerical code.

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