Re: [Chicken-users] Re: compiling jbogenturfa'i .scm => .c takes 2.5 hours

[Felix]

From: Alan Post <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] Re: compiling jbogenturfa'i .scm => .c takes 2.5 hours
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:16:54 -0700

> 
> I would love to better understand what it is I'm doing and why it is
> causing a problem.  I'm not sure how to fix my code, as I don't
> quite get why what I'm doing is triggering the compiler to generate
> such large files.

Alan, if you use "-debug 2", the compiler will output the result of
the macro-expansion, which may be helpful in looking at the code
your macros generate. Somewhere excessive code is generated, which
may be less costly in the interpreter due to sharing of subexpressions.


cheers,
felix