>> Note that I don't want that we stay with Guile 1.8 forever, but the
>> slowness of 2.x and 3.x is a serious issue. To sacrifice this
>> still enormous speed advantage just for the sake of orthodoxy seems
>> wrong to me.
>
> So 10% performance regression for users is enormous?
This would be acceptable, but...
> After all, this was the *real* purpose of this thread, which nobody
> bothered answering so far.
... you were talking about advancing to Guile 2.x as the next step,
and if I have understood your original e-mail correctly, this speed is
only available with 3.x.
Werner