On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, I remember having a flamewar with RMS about language agnosticism >>> and running emacs on GUILE about 8 years ago, and I don't think we >>> have progressed much since then. Extrapolating this pace, I think >>> it's a waste of time. >> >> 8 years?? Anyway. I just mentioned things that guile-vm can do. If they >> don't get done that means they're not important. > > I was going to write the same thing - then saw that Andy had already done so. > > People work on what interests them, in the time they have spare. I > know we've lost in the global scripting language competition, but I > still find this language implementation fun.
I am not using and enhancing GUILE primarily for fun. A large part of the lilypond architecture in written in it, and performance problems in GUILE often translate directly to problems in LilyPond. The reason I delved in the GC years ago was because lily was spending half of its time running GUILE's GC. I feel using GUILE has been a big mistake -especially considering the amount of time I sank into it. I seriously looked into moving lily to mzscheme, but I lack the bandwidth to do that now. I hope you can understand that I have a somewhat different basic attitude wrt GUILE development. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
