Re: GNU Guile branch, master, updated. v2.1.0-158-g3c12fc3

2012-03-08 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Thu 08 Mar 2012 03:37, Mark H Weaver writes: >> commit 24ea9f9c3abb8d9398df4810b815075593ba67c8 >> Author: Andy Wingo >> Date: Tue Mar 6 22:21:39 2012 +0100 >> >> ports.c: inline get_codepoint > > It's generally frowned upon nowadays to explicitly ask the C compiler to > inline fun

Re: GNU Guile branch, master, updated. v2.1.0-163-g283ab48

2012-03-08 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Thu 08 Mar 2012 03:29, Mark H Weaver writes: >> commit 283ab48d3f20a5c5281cafc29f0c30c8d8ace9ee >> Author: Andy Wingo >> Date: Wed Mar 7 19:01:56 2012 +0100 >> >> faster (make-prompt-tag); default-prompt-tag is a parameter >> >> * module/ice-9/boot-9.scm (default-prompt-ta

Re: GNU Guile branch, master, updated. v2.1.0-158-g3c12fc3

2012-03-08 Thread David Kastrup
Andy Wingo writes: > Hi, > > On Thu 08 Mar 2012 03:37, Mark H Weaver writes: > >>> commit 24ea9f9c3abb8d9398df4810b815075593ba67c8 >>> Author: Andy Wingo >>> Date: Tue Mar 6 22:21:39 2012 +0100 >>> >>> ports.c: inline get_codepoint >> >> It's generally frowned upon nowadays to explicitly

Re: GNU Guile branch, master, updated. v2.1.0-163-g283ab48

2012-03-08 Thread Mark H Weaver
Andy Wingo writes: >> I fear that making 'default-prompt-tag' a parameter might slow things >> down quite a bit on platforms with a slow implementation of thread local >> storage. > > Not the case! It shouldn't depend on thread-local storage at all > actually since the VM already has a handle on

Re: GNU Guile branch, master, updated. v2.1.0-163-g283ab48

2012-03-08 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 08 Mar 2012 15:28, Mark H Weaver writes: >>> What's the anticipated use case for this? >> >> Parameterizing default prompts? It allows users to re-set the >> user/system process boundary for a dynamic extent. > > Okay, makes sense. Sorry for the bother. No problem. I don't have a deep