[Rapideuphoria-develop] A speedup tweak?

[Derek P. <ddp...@bi...>]

I was just thinking that we might get a small performance improvement if  
certain global constants were actually ifdef'd instead.

global constant
	INTERPRET = mode:get_interpret(),
	TRANSLATE = mode:get_translate(),
	BIND      = mode:get_bind()

Currently, we set the 'mode' at the top of the various flavors of  
Euphoria. These could be set via a "with define" instead and thus we don't  
need to keep checking the setting during the execution of the interpreter,  
translator and binder.


So in int.ex, instead of ...

    set_mode( "interpret", 0 )

we could have ...

    with define INTERPRET

and then change the various "if INTERPRET" etc to "ifdef INTERPRET".

Is idea this worth pursuing?

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne Australia
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