[Chicken-hackers] merging the argvector changes

2015-08-28 Thread felix . winkelmann
Hello! Peter asked me to write a few words about the status of the argvector related changes (passing arguments to CPS-procedures in a stack-allocated vector instead of doing it directly). As I already wrote, the initial reason for this change was the new ARM64 iOS ABI, which rigorously

Re: [Chicken-hackers] merging the argvector changes

2015-08-28 Thread Ivan Raikov
I agree that the argvector patch should be merged, as it is a change that allows Real Work to be done with CHICKEN. It would be nice to have performance comparisons of course, and I would be particularly curious to benchmark CPS-style tree traversal and combinator parsing code. I think having