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[Gcl-devel] Re: safety 3
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Camm Maguire |
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[Gcl-devel] Re: safety 3 |
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26 Mar 2006 00:17:28 -0500 |
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Greetings! Wonder if it is legit to move *push-events* up to the
non-existent safety 4 level, in case someone needs it for backward
compatibility.
Take care,
Robert Boyer <address@hidden> writes:
> > safety 3 has come up recently. This mode is actually slower than running
> > interpreted in many cases.
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> That's one of the funniest things I have heard in a long time. It's like
> hearing of a compression algorithm actually producing a longer file.
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> This may be a half baked reply: Compiled code should never run slower than
> interpreted code, excepting of course in deliberately weird situations.
> There is *no point* in having compiled code if it is not faster. A possible
> and simple fix is simply to save, and later run, the interpreted code, after
> expanding macros, somehow disguising the code as "compiled" to save the
> appearances, e.g., compiled-function-p. A pretty general assumption for
> Lisps is that compiled code always has had all of its macros expanded out.
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> Bob
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