From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Uhl Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Floating Point? Date: 09 Sep 2003 15:15:28 -0600 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063145481 7644 80.91.224.253 (9 Sep 2003 22:11:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 00:11:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19wqhi-0001ap-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:11:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19wqer-0000XR-Dc for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 18:08:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19wpsy-0007re-HO for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:18:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19wprX-0006qZ-Uo for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.7.170.6] (helo=latakia.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19wpqi-00061J-2f for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: by latakia.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id CFFA624507; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:15:28 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:2249 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:2249 "Peter S. Christopher" writes: > > As I mentioned in my last e-mail, I tried the python-approach and it > does give some nice performance enhancements. My problem with it is > that it's fairly awkward even for some relatively easy algorithms. I > think (unless anyone has any ideas;-}) it is as good as we'll get > unless/until GUILE becomes a compiled language. (In this later case, > one could imagine embedding special forms that allow fast array loops > and other fancy enhancments). That way lies Common Lisp. Which isn't all that bad a thing. Richard P. Gabriel's Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big has made me rethink some of my previous thoughts on CL. It needs to be more like Scheme in some ways, but Scheme could stand to be more like Common Lisp in a lot of ways, IMHO. -- Robert Uhl Certain televangelists would have you believe Christianity is a bland respectable religion suitable for the suburbs. They are mistaken. --Patrick R. Wade _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user