From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Evan Cooney <evancooney71@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Including code in a non-Guile language into Guix
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:15:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfmkl048.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+NEbmQkSNLq+3_mzYwrK864mCsaaz6U9n4DpGrHT4KUK6wwuw@mail.gmail.com> (Evan Cooney's message of "Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:34:38 -0500")
Evan Cooney <evancooney71@gmail.com> writes:
> I know that Guix is mainly written in Guile, but has much thought gone
> into optimizing these commands
Yes.
> by rewriting some of the
> code in a more performance-oriented language like C?
No.
Guile is not the bottleneck.
> C is also more widely taught and known than Guile, so adding C might
> help bring developers to Guix.
I find this doubtful.
--
Ricardo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-31 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-31 2:34 Including code in a non-Guile language into Guix Evan Cooney
2024-10-31 12:31 ` Daniel Littlewood
2024-10-31 14:15 ` Suhail Singh
2024-10-31 16:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-10-31 17:12 ` Suhail Singh
2024-10-31 16:15 ` Runciter via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-10-31 16:23 ` Evan Cooney
2024-10-31 16:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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