Re: Add more supported primitives in libgccjit IR

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> We may consider directly supporting some of these functions in native
>> compile libgccjit IR code to get rid of runtime type checks.
>
> Didn't you just explained, above, how this would create separate
> versions of the same code that work differently, and how that should
> be avoided?

An alternative could be porting out the type checking to Elisp.
Then, the compiler will be able to cut off some branches when type
information is available at compile time.

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