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Re: [Chicken-users] making lambdas more introspective
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-users] making lambdas more introspective |
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Sun, 29 May 2005 11:46:07 +0200 |
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On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 03:54:43AM -0400, Michele Simionato wrote:
> > One issue is that of course, the compiled version should have this data
> > removed. I'm not sure if currently all extended procedure data is removed
> > or not.
>
> Why do you say so? I have compiled the examples shown before, and it works
> just
> fine. Have you reasons to believe that procedure data behaves
> differently in compiled code?
No, I don't.
I meant that this information is most useful in the interpreter, when you're
not sure about a function's signature. In compiled code the signature will
rarely be requested and they'll only sit there eating memory, so IMHO it's
better to remove this extended info by default.
Regards,
Peter
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