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Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?
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Kevin Ryde |
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Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c? |
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Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:31:20 +1100 |
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Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Does anyone know what the arguments are, if any, for implementing
> delay and force directly in eval.c rather than more generically, at
> the Scheme level, perhaps in boot-9.scm via define-record, lambda,
> etc.?
I imagine some C code is less bytes for a promise object.
(Speaking of which, I'd thought before that once a promise is forced
it shouldn't need a mutex any more, which would save a bit of time and
space.)
- What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?, Rob Browning, 2005/12/06
- Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?,
Kevin Ryde <=
- Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?, Rob Browning, 2005/12/07
- Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?, Kevin Ryde, 2005/12/07
- Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?, Rob Browning, 2005/12/07
- Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?, Kevin Ryde, 2005/12/09
- Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?, Rob Browning, 2005/12/09
- Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?, Kevin Ryde, 2005/12/14
- Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?, Ken Raeburn, 2005/12/07
- Re: What are the arguments in favor of delay/force in eval.c?, Rob Browning, 2005/12/07