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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-02 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2007-10-28 18:16         ` [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS Neil Jerram
2007-10-28 18:29           ` Elf
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0710281146460.32075@tesseract.thetesseract.org>
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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