From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: olivier.dion--- via General Guile related discussions Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:25:45 -0500 Message-ID: <87v9bmfgja.fsf@clara> References: <87a6vnuqrf.fsf@clara> <87v9cmrbom.fsf@dismail.de> Reply-To: Olivier Dion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13127"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Joshua Branson , guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 24 17:26:06 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l3iDF-0003Kb-It for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 17:26:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47752 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3iDE-0005p5-Fw for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:26:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:32948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3iD3-0005ou-L6 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:25:53 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca ([132.207.4.11]:39549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3iD1-0002lC-E2 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:25:52 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([91.193.4.204]) by smtp.polymtl.ca (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 10OGPbMS002169 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:25:43 -0500 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp.polymtl.ca 10OGPbMS002169 In-Reply-To: <87v9cmrbom.fsf@dismail.de> X-Poly-FromMTA: ([91.193.4.204]) at Sun, 24 Jan 2021 16:25:37 +0000 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.207.4.11; envelope-from=olivier.dion@polymtl.ca; helo=smtp.polymtl.ca X-Spam_score_int: -41 X-Spam_score: -4.2 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.user:17191 Archived-At: On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions 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