Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Slight promise efficiency and memory improvements

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:25:18PM +0100, Moritz Heidkamp wrote:
> Dear Chickeneers,
> 
> the attached patch changes the implementation of promises to be slightly
> more efficient when forcing a promise more than once (one procedure call
> less). Also, instead of keeping the promise result in the promise
> thunk's closure it is now kept in a slot of the promise structure. This
> allows for removing the reference to the thunk once the promise has been
> forced and thus saving some memory.

Very clever!  I've tested and pushed this.

Are you actually using promises so much that you're running into
performance issues with them, or was this just for fun?

Cheers,
Peter
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