Subject: bug#21514: Guile 2.2: Sluggish elf calls, esp around arity / promises / statprof

From: Christopher Allan Webber <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:54:43 -0600

Here's a fix to this bug.  Tests pass, and performance appears to be
back here.

I've assigned copyright to the FSF for Guile so it should be fine to
commit!

>From 79e3b5286a2699f9b302bd3abf8a6b884b13a4f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Allan Webber <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:42:31 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Remove thunk / arity check in make-promise

* libguile/promises.c (s_scm_make_promise): Remove arity check in
  make-promise.  This was causing considerably slowdown with the new elf
  code, causing considerable number of bytevector reading calls on
  every call to (make-promise).  Removing this check fixes a performance
  regression in the new compiler.
---
 libguile/promises.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libguile/promises.c b/libguile/promises.c
index dcd0ac3..858b6f3 100644
--- a/libguile/promises.c
+++ b/libguile/promises.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011
+/* Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2015
  * Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  * 
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_make_promise, "make-promise", 1, 0, 0,
             "@end lisp\n")
 #define FUNC_NAME s_scm_make_promise
 {
-  SCM_VALIDATE_THUNK (1, thunk);
   SCM_RETURN_NEWSMOB2 (scm_tc16_promise,
 		       SCM_UNPACK (thunk),
 		       SCM_UNPACK (scm_make_recursive_mutex ()));
-- 
2.1.4