Re: [Chicken-users] multiple values in chicken

[John Cowan]

Zbigniew scripsit:

> I ran Alex's test on a fast machine (Intel C2D 2GHz).  Compiled with
> `csc -Ob values.scm`, Chicken 3.0.1 macosx-unix-gnu-x86, results below.
> I got the same disparity as Alex.  I would be curious as to what
> platform you're running on, because I want it.

An ancient Dell Latitude D610 laptop running Ubuntu Gutsy.  I suspect
it's a Mac OS X issue somehow.

> So, if you're going to use multiple values, don't do it because of a
> theoretical speedup, but because it semantically fits the problem.

I agree.

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