Re: [Chicken-hackers] Handling multiple args in types.db

[megane]

Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:06:15PM +0300, megane wrote:
>> Hi folks!
>> 
>> Do you think that adding specializations for multiple argument calls to
>> mathematical functions is worth it? Like this:
>
> We have a rewrite for this already, I wonder why it's not being applied.
>
> That's (rewrite 'scheme#+ 19) in c-platform.scm (on line 728).

I see. That is handled in optimizer.scm (line 1221). The optimizer runs
after the scrutinizer and the scrutinizer only runs once. And it's the
scrutinizer that installs the specializations in types.db.

>
> Cheers,
> Peter