On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:39 PM Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > there’s a Guile 3.0.6 release planned that includes a rewrite of the > > reader in Scheme. It has speed in the same order of magnitude as the > > previous reader but might have different performance characteristics. > > > > If I remember correctly, lilypond uses the reader a lot, so if you have > > a test-system with lilypond on Guile 3, could you test how running > > lilypond with the current Guile master from git affects lilypond? > > last time I looked, building GUILE 3 from source was truly glacial, > making this kind of thing annoying to check. > > You say "same order of magnitude". Do you have benchmarks so we know > what to expect?
Also, as Harm describes, the build requires gperf, but you autoconf script doesn't check for it, as it should. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanw...@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen