Re: [Texmacs-dev] Bigloo?

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, David MENTRE wrote:
> Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> writes:
> > I just took a look at the website for Bigloo and this might be
> > quite an interesting choice.
>
> > 3) It seems to support a run-time system (some interpreter is
> >    started when compiling the program and typing bigloo;
> >    I guess (hope) that it is efficient and well-integrated
> >    with the rest; to check).
>
> I have ran the tests for Bigloo in interpreter mode (biglooi in the
> results):
>
>  - for speed aspects, bigloo is sometimes between guile 1.4 and guile
>    1.6, sometimes closer to faster scheme interpreters (but never as
>    good as them);

OK, that is fair enough, if all main modules are compiled.
I just want to ensure that small user extensions would still
run with a reasonable speed.

> My conclusion: if you want to use bigloo, be prepare to use it in
> compile mode.

Of course, that is what we would use it for.