Summary
investigate usefulness of providing a compilation mode that disables fixnum overflow detection
Metadata
- Id: c6d8acf425e1bb395ab7864e62b7927103ab78cd
- Trac id: 748
- Type: enhancement
- Reporter: felix
- Owner: felix
- Cc:
- Status: closed
- Component: compiler
- Estimated difficulty:
- Resolution: wontfix
- Priority: not urgent at all
- Milestone:
- Version: 4.7.x
- Changetime: 2012-01-23 11:23:38 UTC
- Created: 2011-12-13 13:34:18 UTC
- Keywords: fixnum overflow
Description
This would mean alternative specialization rules which might increase performance somewhat. Currently `types.db` can not contain sets of alternative specializations, we would need something like `cond-expand` for entries in the type database.
Such a mode could be enabled by a declaration and/or a compiler option.