Re: SRFI-144 - initial port

[John Cowan]

It would be great to use (chicken flonum) and, where necessary, direct FFI calls and see if they are faster.  I was quite surprised when the Larceny Scheme procedures were faster than the C ones, but from what I understand, Larceny's FFI is expensive.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 3:41 PM Diego <dieggsy@pm.me> wrote:

Hi all,

I've created an initial port of SRFI-144 that passes test-new-egg with release-info here:

https://code.dieggsy.com/srfi-144/plain/srfi-144.release-info

I'm thinking a next step might be to test the procedures with C equivalents in CHICKEN and see if it'd be best to switch to those. Currently, only the two procedures stated in the SRFI document are using the FFI, but I'm not sure if the claims made about Larceny hold for us as well.

- Diego