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Re: debug evaluator is faster than regular one?


Brad Knotwell <knotwell@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> Keisuke Nishida writes:
>  > The basic idea is the same.  I use GCC's `&&' operator to get labels'
>  > addresses and execute "goto *pc;" to run VM's instructions.
> 
> I suspect I've just missed something here, but if guile uses gcc's computed 
> gotos (what qscheme uses) won't that mean guile could *only* be compiled 
> with gcc.  

Yes.


If so, wouldn't that be a "bad thing?"

Why?  Are there any machines on which gcc is not available?


Jost

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