From: Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:53:16 +0000
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > I'm convinced that it's possible to write a Scheme interpreter much > > faster than ours. > > It must be possible, because other implementations have done it. No, guile is a hell of a fast interpreter. Faster implementations either aren't interpreters thus losing flexibility or pretty sloppy concerning garbage collection stuff. > > It's difficult at this point to avoid a possibly unwelcome question: > what makes Guile Guile, the agenda Richard M. Stallman gave out a dozen of years ago > and why wouldn't we be better off contributing > our resources to an implementation that already is faster? > as said, their speed is achieved at a high cost Klaus Schilling _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
