From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: Guile Development <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A big hole where the evaluator used to be...
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:50:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqcdlaj9.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3pr6ldcw0.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:27:11 +0100")
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> Thanks! I finally had time to write up some of this here:
>
> http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/12/09/in-which-our-protagonist-forgoes-modesty
Nice. But I didn't understand where you said that all the unit tests go
through the evaluator. Apart from those that use eval explicitly, don't
they all just get compiled and VM'd?
> Another side of this is compile-time speed; psyntax-pp.scm takes forever
> to compile now, like 4 or 8 minutes.
And much longer than that (~30 mins?) on my ancient P3 laptop! (But
it's still worth it!)
Regards,
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-11 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-03 19:08 A big hole where the evaluator used to be Neil Jerram
2009-12-11 10:27 ` Andy Wingo
2009-12-11 16:50 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2009-12-11 19:18 ` Andy Wingo
2009-12-11 22:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
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