Re: [Chicken-users] syntactically completeness / consistency

[Felix]

From: Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] syntactically completeness / consistency
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:50:38 -0400

>> So, the transition to hygienic macros and a real module system is
>> hereby complete, not taking into account the bugs that will still lurk
>> everywhere and the low performance of the expander, which will be
>> worked on.
> 
> Fantastic, Felix.  Thanks a lot.

You're very welcome!

> 
> By the way, 4.4.4 runs the quickdoc.scm script in ~2.5s on the same
> machine it takes ~7s with 4.4.0.  I suppose that's the result of
> "slightly better expansion performance" as mentioned in the NEWS
> file.  Just amazing!

Not really amazing: the syntax-expander is written in a style that
doesn't particularly care about performance, so small changes can
give large improvements. 2.6 secs for 200 lines of Scheme is still
embarassingly slow, I'm afraid.


cheers,
felix