Would there be any interest in adding (ice-9 accumulate) to Guile? - http://www.gnuvola.org/software/guile/doc/Efficient-Accumulation.html
I can see several arguments against doing so: - It is a thin layer around (ice-9 q) functionality; possible to reimplement using (ice-9 q), in fact. When the layer is thin, i wonder if the usefulness is more personal (a matter of taste) than general. (See e.g., ttn-do macro `FE'.) - The interface is procedural, possibly defeating compiler optimization. When i wrote it, it was an exercise for hobbit. The hope was that hobbit could eventually learn to optimize usage of (ice-9 accumulate) calls to (strength-, complexity-)reduce them to (ice-9 q) calls, where other data-oriented optimizations can come into play. Perhaps that hope was only a non-compiler-geek dream (sounds nice but unfeasible). Perhaps Andy can either revive this hope or kindly kill it off now? - There is already something in Guile. [If so, where? Thanks.] Of course, the primary argument *for* adding it would be to make porting my stuff to Guile easier. That's a selfish argument, so take it FWIW. thi
