From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Klaus Schilling Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:53:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20071102.215338.59468377.schilling.klaus@web.de> References: <87ejfd7fnq.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <877il57wyt.fsf@laas.fr> <87ir4ow6xv.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194088038 1001 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2007 11:07:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 11:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: elf@ephemeral.net, guile-devel@gnu.org To: neil@ossau.uklinux.net Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 03 12:07:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IoGqV-0008W3-Do for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:07:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoGqL-0006bE-3k for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IoGqG-0006b0-SC for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IoGqF-0006am-Bt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoGqF-0006aj-7L for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IoGqE-0008NM-OH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E54ACF46E2; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:07:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [213.101.243.4] (helo=localhost) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.108 #208) id 1IoGqD-0008P8-00; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:07:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87ir4ow6xv.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Sender: schilling.klaus@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19OCIkRUwmyTInIpsxkUEaOjWpXvBdLHwhwUgsK 6yrvbOLddamzNxIc9sv2HvhUjO797gO8Vlj7TrXwzebqrWLqK9 4aU0dkk8nkRKEYHHH8LA== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6878 Archived-At: From: Neil Jerram Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:53:16 +0000 > ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Court=E8s) 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel