From: olivier.dion--- via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org>
To: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:25:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9bmfgja.fsf@clara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9cmrbom.fsf@dismail.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 16:25 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 [this message]
2021-01-25 13:29 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-01-24 19:05 ` jbranso
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