Re: strings rationale

[Marius Vollmer]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

>       I'm just arguing that without proof you shouldn't claim
>       read-only strings are in general more efficient
> 
> Good.  Apply that argument to the elimination of gloc's too, please.

I didn't remove the glocs to gain performance.  I sacrified
performance for what I think is a much cleaner use of the tag system.
This will hopefully make hacking on Guile easier in the future,
allowing for other changes that will increase performance again (like
a compiler framework that can write pre-memoized code to disk).