From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)" Subject: RE: [bootstrappable] Re: prototyping the full source bootstrap path Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:42:50 +0000 Message-ID: References: <877eulkii1.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3n15mru.fsf@gnu.org> <87vai5w50j.fsf@elephly.net> <87tvxoiyh7.fsf@gnu.org> <87o9nwzkb7.fsf@gnu.org> <87d14bikoo.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7zdmw3m.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJIkW-0005pJ-Oq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:43:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJIkR-0005v8-Qy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:43:00 -0500 Received: from coreosmtp1.michigan.gov ([136.181.192.169]:57199 helo=michigan.gov) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJIkR-0005sw-G4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:42:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a7zdmw3m.fsf@netris.org> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" , "bootstrappable@freelists.org" > Jan is correct that Guile is still heavily tied to its C code. It's true= that Guile's compiler is written in Scheme and that > the C evaluator is used only during bootstrapping, but the C bootstrap e= valuator is only a small piece of libguile.=20 > The majority of libguile is still needed. Notably, the entire runtime, th= e VM, and implementations of many data > structures and other libraries are written in C. Thank you for correcting my mistaken assumption.