Re: [Texmacs-dev] Disastrous boot time for new versions

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 14:11, Daniel Andor wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 March 2003 8:43 pm, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:37, address@hidden wrote:
> > > > > That is not a philosophical problem to me. But the more texmacs will
> > > > > use GUILE as a application language (instead of a mere extension
> > > > > language) the more it will make sense to use a more efficient
> > > > > implementation of Scheme.
> > > >
> > > > Do you know of more efficient implementations,
> > > > which can also be used of extension languages?
> > >
> > > I will look for that.
> 
> I mentioned this problem to a lisp-compiler-hacker friend of mine and he said 
> guile is a "disaster"!
> 
> Embedding a lisp such as ECLs or GCL may provide more efficiency and power, 
> especially if we'd like to move as much as possible into a lisp-ish language. 
> If we need to stick to a flavour of scheme, then mzscheme (or rscheme, as 
> suggested here) could also be considered.

I have a CVS repository with ECL checked into it, for anyone who would
like to pull out a copy for a look.  I've not studied it as much as I'd
like to have, at this point...  I keep getting distracted and side
tracked by other people's priorities.

http://cvs.hegbloom.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ecl/

CVSROOT=:pserver:address@hidden:/var/cvs/debian
cvs login
 (blank password)
cvs -z3 checkout ecl

It's in a repository called "debian" because, a long time ago, I was
going to package it for Debian.  I never got around to it, and as I
said, I've been sidetracked by other people's priorities.  Hopefully,
over the next few years, I'll have the time and peace for that.

I found that finding ECL (ECoLisp) on the net is difficult...  It seemed
to have all but disappeared at one point.  Please make a copy.

> 
> Daniel.
> 
> > > The problem is knowing what is the requirement for a scheme
> > > implementation to be used as an extension language.
> > >
> > > I suppose that is:
> > >
> > >   -- easy to bind to C
> > >
> > >   -- the full language in available in runtime
> > >
> > >   -- no need for an external compiler (I suppose you do not want
> > >      texmacs to depend on gcc :-)
> > >
> > >   -- module system supporting namespaces
> >
> > Perhaps rscheme is what you want?  http://www.rscheme.org/
> >
> > apt-cache search rscheme
> > apt-get install rscheme
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