Re: How to reduce binding load time

[Marius Vollmer]

Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Andy, i suggest you try to use 'scm_call_1 (scm_sym_make,
> scm_generic)' instead of using 'scm_make(scm_generic)'; this should
> speed up generic function creation a fair bit (and this is an
> understatement). I did so with some sucess in my g-wrap code with
> great success (reducing binding load time by 1/3 -- 1/2).

Why is that?  Could we speed up scm_make to give the same kind of
performance as scm_call_1 (scm_sym_make, ...)?

What is scm_sym_make, incidentally?  You can't call symbols...

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