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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: <dsmich@roadrunner.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Performance tracking
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 12:01:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mx5l1vd4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120506014257.QL5CU.354513.root@cdptpa-web34-z02.mail.rr.com> (dsmich@roadrunner.com's message of "Sun, 6 May 2012 1:42:57 +0000")

Hi!

<dsmich@roadrunner.com> skribis:

> ---- Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> wrote: 
>> It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent
>> compiling Scheme code, rather than C code.
>> 
>> One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster
>> if it had another copy of Guile already around, so it could skip the
>> portion of compile-time where the interpreter is running the compiler.
>
> This is what the GUILE_FOR_BUILD env var is for.

It’s actually only used when cross-compiling.

Ludo’.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-06 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-04 23:30 Performance tracking Ludovic Courtès
2012-05-05 16:33 ` Noah Lavine
2012-05-05 16:42   ` David Kastrup
2012-05-05 16:51     ` Noah Lavine
2012-05-05 16:55       ` David Kastrup
2012-05-05 21:07   ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-05-06  1:42   ` dsmich
2012-05-06 10:01     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2012-05-06 10:38       ` dsmich
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-17 18:12 Neil Jerram
2009-09-17 21:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-09-18  4:47   ` Ken Raeburn
2009-09-18 20:46   ` Neil Jerram

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