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Re: Custom allocation of cells
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Custom allocation of cells |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:18:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> If there is a cheaper way (very possible), then we should use it to
> implement scm_cell.
Sure. But an having the ability to implement an application-specific,
Guile-compatible, cell allocation method would be nice, no matter how
well `scm_cell ()' performs.
> Hmm, without knowning any details, my first thought is that you might
> need to invent a new calling convention that does not not to call
> scm_cell if you want to avoid scm_cell.
Indeed, this is what Guile-VM already does for calls to compiled code.
The problem arises for calls to regular Guile procedures (so it doesn't
hurt that much).
Thanks,
Ludovic.