Re: GNU Guile branch, master, updated. v2.1.0-163-g283ab48

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Andy,

> commit 283ab48d3f20a5c5281cafc29f0c30c8d8ace9ee
> Author: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
> Date:   Wed Mar 7 19:01:56 2012 +0100
>
>     faster (make-prompt-tag); default-prompt-tag is a parameter
>     
>     * module/ice-9/boot-9.scm (default-prompt-tag): Once parameters have
>       booted, redefine as a parameter.

I fear that making 'default-prompt-tag' a parameter might slow things
down quite a bit on platforms with a slow implementation of thread local
storage.

What's the anticipated use case for this?

     Thanks,
       Mark