On 12/27/23 8:17 AM, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Hafeez Bana<hafeez.bana@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> The kind of advice you would be giving is:
> …
>> Alternatively, if there are sysadmin shops that are interested in doing
>> this work - please contact me.
>>
>> 🩷 Guix.
> Out of interest: Did you already receive applications for this?
>
> If not: ping to all who may have missed your email ☺
>
> Speeding up Guix partially means speeding up Guile — I know there are
> people here who are very interested in that.
>

FYI, I found that rlb's string update reduced guile compute time 20% for 
a big ffi-helper run.
I wonder if that would help guix as well.   I'm not sure how easy it 
would be to test.

ref: https://codeberg.org/rlb/guile/src/branch/utf8

Matt