Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Performance complaint from a user

[jeff]

Quoting Juho Snellman <address@hidden>:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:46:45PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > In GCL 2.6.2 (which I just tried), disassemble works on functions
> > that have NOT been compiled and gives both the C code and the
> > assembly language code.
>
> Ah, so it seems. That's surprising.

I think the reason is that, by working that way, it can show you
the assembly code by running the GCL compiler and then running
the C compiler -- two things that must exist anyway.  So it
avoids needing to write a disassembler.

-- Jeff