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From: jbranso@dismail.de
To: "Olivier Dion" <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca>, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:05:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19bcb6ba0e888673930ff6238130fd54@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9bmfgja.fsf@clara>

Awesome!  Well done chap!  Jolly good sport!

January 24, 2021 11:25 AM, "Olivier Dion" <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Olivier!
>> 
>> I've heard that guile is generally faster than python, but there are
>> some other schemes that are faster, notably chez scheme.
> 
> Yes. I remember seing somewhere that Guile is much more energy
> efficiant than Python. It's a shame that the latter is more popular
> than the former.
> 
>> I will also say that Andy Wingo (one of the guile maintainers) is
>> working on making guile code "within" an order of magnitude of the speed
>> of C code. I would say to try to build your program in guile and post
>> back here.
> 
> Well the software in question is a video game engine. But I managed to
> integrate Guile into the engine, deactivating the Guile context in
> critical section of C code. Work like a charm!
> 
> --
> Olivier Dion
> PolyMtl



      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-24 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-12  4:45 Using Guile for soft-realtime Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2020-12-28  0:55 ` Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
2021-01-24 16:25   ` olivier.dion--- via General Guile related discussions
2021-01-25 13:29     ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-01-24 19:05   ` jbranso [this message]

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