Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 9:15 PM, Rupert Swarbrick <rupert.swarbrick at lineone.net
> 3) Some of this code involves lots of copy-paste - in particular the
> predicates like ratnump and mplusp, which just check (caar x) - I think
> this stuff would be quite amenable to "macroization", which would mean
> other tests on the caar could be performed trivially.
>
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> Let's not worry about microoptimizations like this, though they are
> tempting. Ideally, we should be able to have the compiler auto-inline
> when appropriate. (I know, this depends on things like build order.)
Hmm. I had assumed he meant to write a macro (or macrolet) to write the
various predicates, not to make the various predicates into macros.
This would make sense to me.
I definitely agree with Stavros' comment about microoptimization, though.
Ray