From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: compiler dep on r6rs
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:55:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m339oeipjr.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wrnleusr.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (Andy Wingo's message of "Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:33:56 +0100")
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 11:33, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> The new R6RS support is great. However we are currently pulling in (rnrs
> base) into the set of modules needed by the compiler, because (language
> assembly compile-bytecode) uses open-bytevector-output-port, and the
> ports impl gained a dep on base.
>
> Is there any way that we can remove this dependency? It will speed up
> bootstrap and the pause as the first expression at the REPL is
> compiled.
How about we move most of the procedures that are defined in C via
scm_init_r6rs_ports to (ice-9 binary-ports). Then (rnrs io ports) can
still be a r6rs module, and low-level code can avoid pulling in r6rs.
I plan to do this soonish if there are no objections.
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-27 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-07 10:33 compiler dep on r6rs Andy Wingo
2011-01-27 10:55 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-01-27 13:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-01-27 14:07 ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-27 19:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-02-20 21:46 ` Andy Wingo
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