property list hack, profiling, compiler optimization, looking at code



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>Looks like there are a bunch of places to make this program run faster.
>zerop1 is near the top.  risplit  (real-imaginary-split ???) is there too.

The trig simplification code calls both flonum-eval  and big-float-eval. Both of these functions call
$imagpart and $realpart. And both $imagpart and $realpart call risplit :( 

Fortunately for pure symbolic cases, such as cos(x), flonum-eval and big-float-eval bail out with out calling
risplit.


--bw