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Re: Performance tracking

by David Kastrup :: Rate this Message:

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Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@...> writes:

> It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent
> compiling Scheme code, rather than C code.
>
> One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster
> if it had another copy of Guile already around, so it could skip the
> portion of compile-time where the interpreter is running the compiler.

Bootstrap hell.  If the "copy of Guile already around" happens to
produce different code, you have lots of fun ahead.

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David Kastrup


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