Hello Paul, Thanks a lot for the informatin and links, things are much clearer to me now.
JM > Le 3 janv. 2016 à 20:51, Paul Morris <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> On Jan 3, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Menu Jacques <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A newbie question: what are the expected benefits and challenges of moving >> from guile 1.8.x to guile 2.y? > > As I understand it, guile 2.0 introduced significant performance > improvements, mainly for compiled scheme, but since LilyPond interprets > scheme, and the scheme interpreter in guile 2.0 is actually slower than in > 1.8 (but faster in 2.2 than in 2.0) …just how much of the performance > benefits LilyPond will enjoy remains to be seen. > > One of the immediate benefits is just keeping up with the current guile > version distributed with gnu/linux distributions. They don’t want to keep > including guile 1.8 just for LilyPond’s sake, so LilyPond could get dropped > from these distributions. > > But the big story is the challenges -- mainly that guile 2.0 still has bugs > that need to be fixed for it to work reliably with LilyPond. > > I recently saw this announcement about guile 2.1.1 the "first pre-release in > what will become the 2.2 stable series”: > http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8397 > > That led me to the redesigned guile website and their mailing list, where I > found a post that touches on the need for better LilyPond support in guile: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2015-11/msg00005.html > > And this follow-up post that clearly lays out the current showstopper bug: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2015-11/msg00031.html > > Maybe that sheds some light on this. Clarifications and additions welcome. > > -Paul > > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
