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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



  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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