It would be great to use (chicken flonum) and, where necessary, direct FFI calls and see if they are faster. I was quite surprised when the Larceny Scheme procedures were faster than the C ones, but from what I understand, Larceny's FFI is expensive.
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 3:41 PM Diego <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've created an initial port of SRFI-144 that passes test-new-egg with > release-info here: > > https://code.dieggsy.com/srfi-144/plain/srfi-144.release-info > > I'm thinking a next step might be to test the procedures with C > equivalents in CHICKEN and see if it'd be best to switch to those. > Currently, only the two procedures stated in the SRFI document are using > the FFI, but I'm not sure if the claims made about Larceny hold for us as > well. > > - Diego > >
