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Re: [Chicken-users] numbers egg slow?
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Daishi Kato |
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Re: [Chicken-users] numbers egg slow? |
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Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:16:12 +0900 |
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Wanderlust/2.15.1 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/21.4 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) |
At Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:35:29 +0900,
Daishi Kato wrote:
> > It's probably better to check the result of %FIX-EXPT once before
> > entering the loop rather than on every iteration, since if it fails
> > once it will always fail.
>
> I see what you mean, but my original thought was
> to even speed up bignum-expt by checking fix-expt every loop.
> It really depends on how fast fix-expt is.
> There should be other solutions such as writing expt in C,
> but for now, I would suggest to check fix-expt out of the loop,
> as Alex suggested.
> Would it be possible to combine %power and %fix-power in this way?
Alex,
Attached my patch proposal.
How would you think?
Daishi
numbers-base.scm.patch3
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