Re: [Chicken-users] jbogenturfa'i compile time down to 12 minutes

[Alan Post]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:55:37PM -0800, Alex Shinn wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Felix
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > From: Alan Post <address@hidden>
> > Subject: [Chicken-users] jbogenturfa'i compile time down to 12 minutes
> > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:33:07 -0700
> >
> >> I will be more than happy to thoroughly test any changes mode to
> >> Chicken's compiler that attempt to optimize large letrec forms
> >> with mutually recursive definitions, should any work be done in
> >> that area.
> >
> > Working on it - I'll get back to about this.
> 
> This has been a long-standing complaint of mine! :)
> 
> I have a macro called let-machine which is basically
> a letrec that automatically does the transformations
> needed to compile efficiently under Chicken.  I thought
> I made an egg of it, but apparently not.  It must be
> on my home machine, which I won't have access to
> for another two weeks.
> 

Two weeks!?

I look forward to testing it!

You shared this link with me on IRC, and I'd like to paste it here
too.  It discussed the basic idea behind your let-machine:

  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.chicken/12002

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