Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello!
>
> Here’s a followup to Andy’s great blog post about the new “baseline
> compiler” that’ll be in Guile 3.0.3:
>
>   https://wingolog.org/archives/2020/06/03/a-baseline-compiler-for-guile
>
> With the attached patch I’ve run ‘make as-derivation’ (equivalent to
> ‘guix pull’) and timed the builds of guix-packages-base.drv (279 files)
> and guix-packages.drv (217 files) on my 4-core i7 laptop:
>
>   • guix-packages-base.drv: 1m30s (was 4m)
>
>   • guix-packages.drv: 30s (was 1m8s)
>
> So this part is ~2.5 times faster than before, yay!  Thank you, Andy!

Indeed, thanks Andy! That's an amazing speedup :D