[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: `SCM_MAKE_CHAR ()' signedness issue
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: `SCM_MAKE_CHAR ()' signedness issue |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:26:44 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Ken Raeburn <address@hidden> writes:
> On Aug 16, 2009, at 18:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> There's always the inline-function approach, too.
>>
>> Unfortunately no, because we're still not assuming `inline' keyword
>> support from the compiler.
>
> Right, but inline.h deals with that; if "inline" isn't supported you
> just get a declaration and make a function call. There would be a
> performance hit from doing the function calls all the time,
Yes, I'm not sure that's something worth trying.
> In fact, there are cases where the argument to SCM_MAKE_CHAR is a
> function invocation, where it might be beneficial for performance to
> not compute the value twice.
Right, but I guess these could be avoided trivially.
Thanks,
Ludo'.