[Chicken-janitors] #1172: The overhead of loading import files is noticable

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#1172: The overhead of loading import files is noticable
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 Reporter:  sjamaan           |       Owner:         
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  major             |   Milestone:  someday
Component:  core libraries    |     Version:  4.9.x  
 Keywords:  modules, loading  |  
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 As reported by CaptainRant via IRC, the overhead in loading a .import.scm
 is quite a lot.  This is an issue for CaptainRant in a project that
 involves loading plugins into a running binary.

 Attached is a simple test case that compares loading a full module versus
 a simple "unit" style dynamic object.

 The biggest overhead is in the call to "eval" in the generated import
 file.  This can be ripped out with no consequence to the loading of the
 plugin; this may be due to the simplicity of the plugin or really due to
 the fact that there's no code running at toplevel which requires the
 evaled import. In any case, this should be improved.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1172>
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