Don't do this. It's very important for compiled code that these primitives be wrapped in Scheme code. This allows the compiler to open-code them in place, so things like (map car ...) work well.
If this is a problem for your interpreter, we'll have to find another solution. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Taylor R Campbell<[email protected]> wrote: > You changed DEFINE-PRIMITIVES and a number of primitive definitions in > the run-time system to eta-reduce them. I presume that this makes the > system run faster on your C# interpreter, but conversely, Chris had > made the opposite change about a year ago in order to make the system > run faster when compiled, because if the primitive is open-coded, as > most of them are, then the compiled procedure is much faster to call > from compiled code than the primitive procedure. While I appreciate > that you'd like the system to run faster on your C# interpreter, I > suspect that even with the eta-reduced primitives, it's much slower > than compiled code, so personally I think I'd prefer the eta-expanded > definitions. > > There's also a separate issue of which form is more documentative. By > eta-reducing the definitions, M-A in Edwin will generally show the > primitive's documentation, including its parameter list as described > in the microcode -- if the primitive's microcode definition was > written with a documentation string. Eta-expanding the definitions > with generated names makes M-A a little less useful for case when > documentation was available, but maybe we could make DEFINE-PRIMITIVES > generate parameter lists from the primitives' documentation strings if > available. On the other hand, using DEFINE-PRIMITIVES at all makes > life hard for grep and tags, silly as those may be. > > > _______________________________________________ > MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel > _______________________________________________ MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel
