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Re: debug evaluator is faster than regular one?
Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu> writes:
> Michael Vanier <mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu> writes:
>
> > > 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. If so, wouldn't that be a "bad thing?"
> >
> > No, you haven't missed anything, and yes, it would be a bad thing.
>
> Guile is part of "the GNU Project" and should work with "the GNU Product",
> in my humble opinion. I'm not saying that I'm ignoring non-GCC users.
> I just want to utilize this nice feature. Supporting non-GCC is certainly
> possible (but will be later).
It is OK to use gcc-specific features as long as there is an ANSI C
alternative that works reasonably well.
I don't expect this to be a problem.
/mdj