Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] perform immediateness checks inline before invoking mutation primitive

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 05:03:13AM -0400, Felix wrote:
> The attached patch replaces the fundamental mutation primitive
> "C_mutate" with an inline-variant that does the immediateness check of
> the assignmend value at the call site (I hope). The old variant is
> still available for binary compatibility, but has been obsoleted.
> 
> I think this was originally suggested by Joerg Wittenberger.

Thanks, pushed.

I ran the chicken-benchmarks on it, and it turns out that especially
the first few benchmarks are a bit faster.  Other than that, there are
a few minor differences (compilation time seems to have gone up a bit).
The takr benchmark is almost twice as slow with this patch, though!
Could be a coincidence, because when run separately on the commandline
there's not much of a difference.

Cheers,
Peter
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