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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