Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> It's not in core mostly because it would make things slower (though I'm
> not 100% convinced of that; there's type dispatching for fixnums/flonums
> already anyway) and because it is an extra-large additional pile of code.
>

     Indeed, I don't buy the slowness argument either. Make fixnums be
the fast path and branch prediction will do the rest.

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-alex
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