Aaron W. Hsu scripsit: > I question the sanity of minor optimizations on deliberately slow code.
It's precisely naive implementations that benefit most from an explicit fast path through the code that an optimizing system may well be able to find for itself. Nowadays, C compilers normally disregard the "register" declaration, but in the old days, a judiciously placed "register" in the inner loop, or to put a global variable in a register (back when machines *had* registers) made a hug difference to performance. -- John Cowan co...@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from." _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list r6rs-discuss@lists.r6rs.org http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
