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Re: Making Guile slower
Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net> writes:
> Consider this:
>
> SCM_NEWCELL(foo);
> SCM_SETCDR(foo, scm_must_malloc(foo_size, s_make_foo));
> SCM_SETCAR(foo, scm_tc16_foo);
... which should be written ...
m = scm_must_malloc (foo_size, s_make_foo);
SCM_NEWCELL (foo);
SCM_SETCDR (foo, m);
SCM_SETCAR (foo, scm_tc16_foo);
Wouldn't it be a solution, then, to abstract away this idiom, e.g. as
a macro, so that we both gain readability, safer code, and get the
freedom still to choose an efficient from of the NEWCELL operation
itself?