From: Klaus Schilling <schilling.klaus@web.de>
To: neil@ossau.uklinux.net
Cc: elf@ephemeral.net, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:53:38 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071102.215338.59468377.schilling.klaus@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ir4ow6xv.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net>
From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:53:16 +0000
> ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> > I'm convinced that it's possible to write a Scheme interpreter much
> > faster than ours.
>
> It must be possible, because other implementations have done it.
No, guile is a hell of a fast interpreter.
Faster implementations either aren't interpreters
thus losing flexibility
or pretty sloppy concerning garbage collection stuff.
>
> It's difficult at this point to avoid a possibly unwelcome question:
> what makes Guile Guile,
the agenda Richard M. Stallman gave out a dozen of years ago
> and why wouldn't we be better off contributing
> our resources to an implementation that already is faster?
>
as said, their speed is achieved at a high cost
Klaus Schilling
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2007-10-28 18:16 ` [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS Neil Jerram
2007-10-28 18:29 ` Elf
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2007-10-28 19:28 ` Neil Jerram
2007-10-29 15:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-29 21:51 ` Neil Jerram
2007-10-30 9:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-30 15:01 ` Julian Graham
2007-10-30 23:15 ` Neil Jerram
2007-10-31 14:55 ` Julian Graham
2007-10-31 13:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-11-06 21:54 ` Neil Jerram
2007-11-11 15:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-11-12 20:29 ` Neil Jerram
2007-11-12 20:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-30 22:53 ` Neil Jerram
2007-10-31 10:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-11-02 20:53 ` Klaus Schilling [this message]
2007-11-03 11:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-11-03 17:49 ` Klaus Schilling
2007-10-30 23:55 ` Andy Wingo
2007-11-03 18:15 ` Klaus Schilling
2007-11-04 12:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
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