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#12033
format should be faster
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Reported by: nalaginrut <nalaginrut <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:55:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #28 received at 12033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine <at> gmail.com> writes:
> It seems clear that in this case, Guile "should" know how to dispatch
> on the format string just once, outside of the loop, instead of doing
> it in every iteration. What do people think of declaring format as a
> macro? That wouldn't help instances of format that have a variable
> format string, but I bet that's a lot less common than this case.
Makes sense to me, though I'm not quite sure how that plays with (ice-9
format)'s side-effecting of the existing format binding. Though it was
meant as a toy, I wrote https://gist.github.com/3167775 ages ago, along
similar lines to this.
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