Hi, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:
> My understanding is that Guile 2.2 traded slower compilation for faster > execution of compiled programs. Hopefully the performance of the > compiler will be improved in later updates to Guile. Yes, that’s a good summary. Most of the code we compile is package definitions that don’t benefit from all the fancy optimizations, so build-aux/build-self.scm (run by ‘guix pull’) turns those off. Unfortunately even with this change compilation is slower than with Guile 2.0, and IMO unacceptably slow for ‘guix pull’ (it takes only a few minutes at most on my laptop, but that’s a lot if we compare to ‘apt-get update’.) Andy, do you have other approaches in mind that we could explore to improve on this? Evaluating all of gnu/packages instead of compiling it AOT would probably be bad for memory and CPU consumption. Thanks, Ludo’.
