Re: [Chicken-users] Speeding up bit-vector operation (using iset)

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:37:12PM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote:
> I don't think this is completely true. GC-time is quite considerable,
> but the loops
> in iset.c are not tight enough for so many iterations (which is mostly
> caused by slow XXXvector operations that require a full CPS call).
> 
> Using bignums (the new "standalone" version, which unfortunately has a bug
> in `random') or crunch would be an interesting exercise.

That silly bug in random has been fixed now.

Cheers,
Peter
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