From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Roadmap and goals? Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:01:33 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <871ydarvfm.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019333026 3399 127.0.0.1 (20 Apr 2002 20:03:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: , Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16z15F-0000si-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:03:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16z14r-0004z3-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16z13J-0004ql-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AB26E2; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:01:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E1266C1E; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:01:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Kirill Lisovsky In-Reply-To: (Kirill Lisovsky's message of "Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:55:41 +0400 (MSD)") Original-Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:430 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:430 Kirill Lisovsky writes: > Guile - it is the slowest one, I'm afraid :-) > Well, it's better _interpreter_ than Bigloo ... > IMHO, it's main advantage is large installation/users base. > But a mess with versions: 1.7.x , 1.6.x, 1.5.x while latest Linux distros > are using 1.4.x or even 1.3.4! > (1.3.4 is used by RedHat 7.2 which makes a lot of installed Guiles pretty > obsolete...) > Using Guile since 1999 I'm still ignoring its latest additions > due to this zoo of versions... After 1.3.4 it *should* be pretty clear -- the numbering scheme is the same as that of the linux kernel now, given MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO, releases with odd MINOR numbers are unstable, i.e. 1.5.* is an unstable beta release, and even numbers are stable. 1.6.1 will be the next stable release. Perhaps this isn't yet well enough known since it was only decided after 1.4 and so is only documented in CVS ATM. The problem with RedHat is a separate problem I think I understand pretty well, and that I'm planning to try and help fix soon. One issue in the FWIW category with respect to performance -- I've got a partially working set of benchmarks here that I can run via a "make". I'm planning to commit these tests to a CVS module (after I make sure the copyrights allow that) so we can use it for checking our work. Most of the benchmarks I have working right now are taken from stalin, and so I've had to tone their workload down by orders of magnitude so they'll actually run in a reasonable time with guile -- stalin is of course ridiculously faster in these tests. > P.S. Forward of Nicolas's message to guile-user@gnu.org > is the reason of this posting. Please, don't consider it as > destructive :-) Not at all, thanks for your comments. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel