Aubrey Jaffer scripsit:

> In JACAL, polynomials are lists (of variable and coefficients) so that
> polynomial operations use the fastest operations that SCM (and other
> Scheme implementations) offers.  Changing polynomials to boxed record
> types would have a disastrous impact on memory usage, cache locality,
> and execution speed of JACAL.

Chibi's implementation of records is as fast as its implementation of pairs:
a type check followed by retrieval from a fixed offset within the record.
However, records are not really suitable for implementing polynomials,
because they are of variable degree.

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