At Tue, 25 May 2010 09:46:56 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > It is my understanding that the tower > consumers a large amount of 'footprint' and I bet there are > applications where machine integers are just enough.
In the early days, MzScheme was a little interpreter bolted onto a numeric system. The numeric system hasn't grown much since, though, while a macro system, bytecode and JIT compilers, and other runtime components have grown up around it. The numeric system is now about 10k lines out of 140k lines of C code (not counting the GC). For comparison, the implementation of just syntax objects (not the whole macro expander) is also around 10K. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
