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and forcing it to be passed as an argument to all the callback functions for the search routines that require it. Magic now compiles and runs with the new code, but there are a number of known issues that need to be fixed up. Committing now so that I can rebase on the last update to the master branch.
This is a mini-scheme interpreter, even though the files are all named
lisp*.{c,h}.
This interpreter is *extremely* slow. I can think of lots of ways to
improve its memory usage and performance (a factor of 5 improvement
seems easy), but it is very robust and it works. :) Besides, it turns
out that the bottleneck in most common tasks is magic itself, not the
interpreter.
The memory usage of this interpreter is ridiculously high. Collect garbage
often. :) Garbage collection is done automatically based on the
variable scm-gc-frequency at the top-level . . . i.e., when you see
magic's ">" prompt. To collect garbage at intermediate points in the
computation, you have to call "collect-garbage" explicitly.
-Rajit Manohar <[email protected]>
Computer Systems Laboratory
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~rajit/
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