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---- "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@...> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> <dsmich@...> skribis:
>
> > ---- Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@...> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > This is what the GUILE_FOR_BUILD env var is for.
>
> It’s actually only used when cross-compiling.
>
> Ludo’.

Ahh.  That explains why I've never seen much speed improvement when using it. ;^)

Thanks.

-Dale



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