[Chicken-janitors] #132: improve devastating floating-point performance

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#132: improve devastating floating-point performance
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 Reporter:  felix                                |       Owner:  felix
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  minor                                |   Milestone:       
Component:  core libraries                       |     Version:  4.2.x
 Keywords:  performance compiler floating-point  |  
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 Floating-point calculations are quite slow, because all operations are
 boxed and many simple operations are implemented in `runtime.c` and so
 require a cross-module call.

 Putting small functions from `runtime.c` as `static inline` (or `static`
 for non-GNU/ICC/C++ compilers) into `chicken.h` should give an
 improvement.

 Unboxing floating-point variables in the generated code would be even
 better.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.irp.oist.jp/trac/chicken/ticket/132>
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