[plt-scheme] Dynamic Procedure Invocation

Forwarded to the appropriate and responsible person -- Matthias


On Mar 26, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Alex Peake wrote:

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> I tried the namespace-* approach and you are correct, it is 
> surprisingly fast.
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> Now if only Common Larceny supported it...
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>
> Alex
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eli Barzilay [mailto:eli at barzilay.org]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:37 AM
>> To: Robby Findler
>> Cc: Alex Peake; plt-scheme at web-ext.cs.brown.edu
>> Subject: RE: [plt-scheme] Dynamic Procedure Invocation
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>> On Mar 26, Robby Findler wrote:
>>> At Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:36:56 -0800, "Alex Peake" wrote:
>>>> The <<no eval>> is just a performance issue
>>>
>>> I suspect that you are best off writing the program first and doing
>>> some performance tuning later. You will be surprised where the
>>> performance is going.
>>
>> I agree -- namespace lookups (the namespae-* functions) and
>> hash table lookups turned out to be surprisingly fast in
>> several heavy applications that I worked on.
>>
>> -- 
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>> Eli Barzilay:
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