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authorDavid Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>2024-02-26 13:46:13 -0500
committerDavid Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>2024-02-26 13:46:13 -0500
commit29339a3f93d9848e98002abc13af1a8f4e99ab93 (patch)
treeee656f9f150a8c5890eca85678629a08533f6e64
parent0a484f180ca13f9de9e4a2ad8119bdcc2bb22ce9 (diff)
Fix run-on sentence and a silly comma.
-rw-r--r--posts/2024-02-25-optimizing-guile.md6
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diff --git a/posts/2024-02-25-optimizing-guile.md b/posts/2024-02-25-optimizing-guile.md
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+++ b/posts/2024-02-25-optimizing-guile.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ simple and apply to optimizing any dynamic language. The only
difference is that there isn’t much in the way of helpful examples
specifically for Guile… until now.
-Scheme is a dynamic language, which means that there is a limited
+Scheme is a dynamic language which means that there is a limited
amount of compile-time information that can be used by Guile to
optimize the resulting bytecode. When we put on our optimizer hat,
our job is to give the compiler a hand so the optimization passes can
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ implicit; `(+ x 1)` may or may not allocate depending on the value of
`x`.
If `x` is `42` then there is no allocation because the result, `43`,
-is in the fixnum range (which is `[-2^63, 2^63)` on 64-bit machines)
-which Guile stores as an “immediate” value which is not heap
+is in the fixnum range (`[-2^63, 2^63)` on 64-bit machines.) Guile
+stores fixnums as “immediate” values; values which are not heap
allocated. However, if `x` is `42.0` then Guile will allocate a float
on the heap to store the result `43.0`. Did you know that floats were
heap allocated in Guile? I didn’t when I was getting started! All