Re: [Chicken-users] Re: compiling jbogenturfa'i .scm => .c takes 2.5 hours

[Alan Post]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:01:54PM +0100, Felix wrote:
> > 
> > Did you have a chance to look at the '-debug bosp' stuff?  I'm
> > curious to benefit from your expert eye, if you'd still like to do
> > that.
> 
> I'm sorry, Alan - I haven't been able yet to look more thoroughly at
> this. Currently I just assume you generate a lot of closures, which
> naturally result in large bodies of code. Since the code, when
> compiled, will not be garbage collectable, I can currently just assume
> there is no way around this problem, and I guess that this will be a
> problem in every C-generating compiler. Now, I'm just guessing and I
> usually guess wrong, so give me a few more days to check out the
> stuff. Sorry, once again.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> felix

Felix,

Thank you for reporting back.  I appreciate your taking any time at
all to look at it, including the time you've already spent.

I'm working on two approaches to better articulate whether there is
a problem here, I hope to have something to report soon.

-Alan
-- 
.i ko djuno fi le do sevzi