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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Minimal Guile
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:47:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqfirkop.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+U71=PEUpDHC76UPkSeSESfV+V7enxWwMJNWwfdbKjLTvSWMQ@mail.gmail.com> (Noah Lavine's message of "Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:32:04 -0500")

Hi Noah,

On Mon 19 Dec 2011 23:32, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> writes:

> I was thinking about it though, and I think there is another thing
> that is causing a lot of this "bloat": all of the Scheme modules we
> are adding.

Do you really think so?  It's more installed size, but it doesn't
affect runtime speed, runtime size, or compile-time portability.

> There is a tension here, because having lots of modules is very
> important for using Guile as a language to write programs in. But when
> it is used as an extension to other languages, most of them are not
> useful.

A point of clarification: as an extension language, Guile is meant to be
a language to extend programs, not a language to extend other languages.

> So if I were dreaming and not thinking about how hard it is to
> write code, I would get a system that lets me pick which modules I
> want to distribute and bundle them up with libguile into a package
> that can be distributed and built on its own.

It sounds more interesting to bundle up a stripped-down build product,
rather than a stripped-down source package.

YMMV of course :)

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-21 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-19 20:35 Minimal Guile Mike Gran
2011-12-19 22:32 ` Noah Lavine
2011-12-21 15:47   ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-12-21 16:03 ` Mike Gran
2011-12-21 21:05   ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-22  1:07   ` Noah Lavine
2011-12-22  8:13     ` David Kastrup
2011-12-24 15:54   ` Antono Vasiljev
2012-01-03 21:44   ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-01-03 22:53     ` Mike Gran
2012-01-03 23:25       ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-01-03 23:41         ` Mike Gran
2012-01-04  1:20       ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-04  2:09         ` Mike Gran
2012-01-04  3:44           ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-04 18:52             ` Mike Gran
2012-01-05  2:02               ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-04 19:16             ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-04 20:48               ` Andreas Rottmann

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