Opened 5 years ago
Closed 22 months ago
#1666 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Separate library into safe and unsafe parts
| Reported by: | felix winkelmann | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 5.4 |
| Component: | core libraries | Version: | 5.1.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Estimated difficulty: | medium |
Description
Many internal primitives in library.scm are compiled in safe mode, but are not strictly required to be safe. For normal primitives we want argument-count checking, etc., but since safeness declarations can only be scoped globally, all low-level interal procedures are compiled in safe mode as well, preventing possible optimizations by the compiler.
I suggest having two files, library.scm and library-u.scm (for example), one compiled safe, the other unsafe. It should be possible to easily move definitions from one to the other, so that it can be done on a case-by-case basis.
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by
| Estimated difficulty: | → medium |
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| Milestone: | someday → 5.3 |
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by
| Milestone: | 5.3 → 5.4 |
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comment:3 Changed 22 months ago by
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Too broad, just adds complexity and the gain is unclear.
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Might be handled once we implement #1611. Anyway, not for 5.3