Every call to a "primitive" in Whalesong's kernel language gets translated into a somewhat-more-expensive closure call. Most of the primitives in kernel don't need this complex machinery. This has implications with the amount of code being generated. We can do a lot better by treating many of the bindings in lang/kernel as special cases.
dyoo
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12 years ago
Every call to a "primitive" in Whalesong's kernel language gets translated into a somewhat-more-expensive closure call. Most of the primitives in kernel don't need this complex machinery. This has implications with the amount of code being generated. We can do a lot better by treating many of the bindings in lang/kernel as special cases.