Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] remove unboxing

[Felix]

From: Christian Kellermann <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] remove unboxing
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:37:06 +0100

> * felix winkelmann <address@hidden> [111221 21:39]:
>> The attached patch removes the unboxing pass from the compiler.  It
>> never worked reliably and has evolved into an unmaintainable
>> mess. This will result in a reduction of runtime performance for
>> unsafe floating-point intensive code.
> 
> Does this obsolete the unbox fix you send out earlier?
> I finally got around to have a look at that :)

I can't remember there is an unbox fix pending. Which one
do you mean? But, yes, unboxing is completely removed.


cheers,
felix