> Long ago I proposed to Felix an implementation of the numbers egg using > run-time hooks rather than modular renaming of procedures, such that + > would always go through a hook which would invoke either the fixnum-flonum > definition in core, or else the definition in any egg that had loaded > itself into this hook (with the understanding that such eggs don't compose).
That is basically te right approach, but will be terribly inefficient, and I mean _really_ inefficient. Any attempt to get fast code must somehow compile to primitive arithmetic instructions, integer or float. We do "reasonably" well right now, but still need better performance (i.e. unboxed flonum operations). If a tight loop with an integer counter needs an extra out-of-line (or even CPS) procedure-call, we lose heavily. felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
