[Chicken-janitors] #748: investigate usefulness of providing a compilation mode that disables fixnum overflow detection

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#748: investigate usefulness of providing a compilation mode that disables 
fixnum
overflow detection
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 Reporter:  felix              |       Owner:  felix
     Type:  enhancement        |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  not urgent at all  |   Milestone:       
Component:  compiler           |     Version:  4.7.x
 Keywords:  fixnum overflow    |  
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 This would mean alternative specialization rules which might increase
 performance somewhat. Currently `types.db` can not contain sets of
 alternative specializations, we would need something like `cond-expand`
 for entries in the type database.

 Such a mode could be enabled by a declaration and/or a compiler option.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/748>
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