Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken-users Digest, Vol 149, Issue 2

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 09:33:49AM -0400, F. Rafael Leon wrote:
> Even when editing the C code, I wrap it in chicken and dynamically
> load it over and over again as I refine the inner loop.

Hey, that sounds interesting!  How do you do that?

> No implementation is as fast as 10 lines of hand-optimized C.

C is good for performance, and it makes a lot of sense to write stuff
in it when it needs to be really fast, but it shouldn't become a crutch
like it is for PHP, Ruby and Python coders when faced with performance
issues:  If the Scheme code is slow when compiled, it makes sense to
first investigate whether it's a bottleneck that can be solved in the
compiler, or with a few hacks^Wwell-placed macros ;)

Cheers,
Peter

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