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

[felix . winkelmann]

>
> In this case I would just move rewrite 19 to happen before scrutiny.
>
> In general, some optimizations like rewrite 19 help the scrutinizer. The
> scrutinizer makes transformations that might enable some optimizations,
> which might help the scrutinizer, ... i.e. "cascading optimizations".
>
> The optimizer seems to do this kind of looping. The scrutinizer just
> isn't part of that (and probably can't be as the optimizer works with
> CPS IIUC).

That's true. There is no way to change the order of the scrutinizer
with respect to the CPS-based optimization passes.


felix