On Wed, 2023-11-29 at 07:54 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> I was under the impression that all code in Guile itself was assumed
> to always be byte-compiled (because of issues like the fact that trying
> to evaluate the evaluator would make you chase your own tail).

For installation probably yes, but empirically it seems that Guile
3.0.9 can survive if you only have ice-9/eval.go, all the rest (even
boot-9.scm) can be evaluated on the fly. It's painfully slow, but it
eliminates one complex piece (bytecode) from the equation, which can be
quite useful during development / debugging.

Jonas