From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: guile-vm 0.7 released Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:20:58 -0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211383371 31618 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2008 15:22:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 15:22:51 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 21 17:23:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jyq9d-0007Ec-Rs for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 17:23:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jyq8t-0005w5-G1 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 11:22:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jyq8q-0005vD-MZ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 11:22:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jyq8p-0005sk-9k for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 11:22:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35394 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jyq8p-0005sV-0D for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 11:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47390 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jyq8o-0001R4-Df for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 11:22:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jyq8l-0002vW-14 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 15:22:07 +0000 Original-Received: from 201.80.72.52 ([201.80.72.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 15:22:07 +0000 Original-Received: from hanwen by 201.80.72.52 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 15:22:07 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.80.72.52 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7260 Archived-At: Andy Wingo escreveu: > * Guile-VM does not currently offer a significant speed advantage over > the interpreter. It is mostly faster by about 2 times or so, but > sometimes slower. On the other hand I haven't profiled it yet. And, > on the other other hand, loading compiled code is really quick. On a related note: how close could this get to executing the C-bindings? The Guile interpreter contains lots of C code that could have just as well have been written in Scheme. It would be cool to drop some of this if there is no speed penalty? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen