[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Statically determine if argvector can be reused

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

I've been playing around a little bit with "perf" and Valgrind's
cachegrind tool, and I noticed that the number of branch prediction
misses can be reduced if the argvector reusing check can be hardcoded
for cases where we know the size of the calling function's argvector.

Here's a simple patch to make this happen (works on both the master
and chicken-5 branches).

I also noticed that for some benchmarks, the number of branches
went up, and missed branches too, compared to current master.  I'm
not sure what to make of that.  Perhaps this is due to inlining
differences.

Cheers,
Peter

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