On Fri 11 Dec 2009 17:50, Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> Thanks! I finally had time to write up some of this here: >> >> >> http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/12/09/in-which-our-protagonist-forgoes-modesty > > Nice. But I didn't understand where you said that all the unit tests go > through the evaluator. Apart from those that use eval explicitly, don't > they all just get compiled and VM'd? They don't, actually. They are all run with the evaluator. See 609edba7eaa2bb30df90a09541a48d97ab4a3bf8. We should probably enable it again now. >> Another side of this is compile-time speed; psyntax-pp.scm takes forever >> to compile now, like 4 or 8 minutes. > > And much longer than that (~30 mins?) on my ancient P3 laptop! (But > it's still worth it!) Uf, 30 minutes. Way too long, eh. I agree it's worth it but that we need to profile things and see what improvements we can get. Also, we could focus on compiler improvements that would help the evaluator -- computed goto might be a good one, so that our memoized-expression-case could compile to something that looks more like the compilation of `case'. Peace, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
