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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: compiler dep on r6rs
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:07:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3tyguh23f.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqricw7u.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:28:05 +0100")

Hi,

On Thu 27 Jan 2011 14:28, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> A potential problem is that (rnrs io ports) uses bytevectors, defined in
> (rnrs bytevectors), so we would perhaps need an (ice-9 bytevectors) as
> well[*], and a new node in the manual for each, etc.

Currently (rnrs bytevectors) doesn't import (rnrs base), and I can't see
that changing any time soon, so perhaps we can leave (rnrs bytevectors)
where it is.

> Is the only problem of the current solution that compilation of Guile
> itself is slower?  (Which is a real problem, but I’m trying to get the
> big picture.)

Yes, and opens more files, and takes more memory.

Regards,

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27 14:07 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
2011-01-27 13:28   ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-01-27 14:07     ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-01-27 19:36       ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-02-20 21:46   ` Andy Wingo

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