Hi,

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> I have no technical objection to your patch, but I'm afraid you must
> be missing something, or else there is something special about the
> environment that you were measuring in.  I have played with a few
> TCP-based Guile applications (including the Emacs debugging interface)
> and not noticed any obvious performance problem.

I tried the attached script, both with and without the patch.  Here, it
says "time: 7" with the patch and "time: 2645" without.

Now, it seems that I was observing an even higher difference because the
Guile server script was running under `strace'...  :-)

Thanks,
Ludovic.