Re: moving min and max to Scheme?

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 09:54:23PM +0200, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While optimizing an implementation of levenshtein distance, I found that
> (min ...) took up a significant part of the profile (16%), so I tried
> replacing it with a simple implementation in Scheme. That worked out
> surprisingly well (shaved off about 25% of the total runtime) and when I
> benchmarked it directly it turned out to be between 1.5 and 3 times
> faster than the min in numbers.c.

Fascinating. Guile's implementation has changed a lot since back then.

Thanks to all involved, especially Andy!

> Would it be a good idea to move min and max from C to Scheme? And what
> would be needed?

Mostly from the peanut gallery here, but I'd think yes!

Cheers & thanks for the find
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