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Re: A big hole where the evaluator used to be...
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: A big hole where the evaluator used to be... |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:56:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>> Another side of this is compile-time speed; psyntax-pp.scm takes forever
>> to compile now, like 4 or 8 minutes.
>
> And much longer than that (~30 mins?) on my ancient P3 laptop! (But
> it's still worth it!)
I agree that it’s very slow (the total build time got 4x longer), but
there’s a positive way to look at it: if Guile needed an older version
of itself, or another Scheme to compile itself (as Larceny and SBCL do,
for instance), the whole compile cycle would take a lot of time too,
maybe even longer. Worse is better! :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.