SVM is very slow; I’ve done informal measurements and found that it’s about 20x
slower than native code.
On Jan 3, 2020, 4:50 PM -0500, Alexander Shendi (Web.DE)
<alexander.she...@web.de>, wrote:
> Dear MIT-Scheme users,
>
> I have managed to build a version of MIT-Scheme (V 10.1.10, SVM1) under
> NetBSD/aarch64 (aka arm64).
>
> The resulting binary seems to run w/o problems, but when I try to start Edwin
> (either via "scheme --edit" or via the "(edwin)" procedure it takes a long
> time to initialize and show the X11 editor window. The Edwin editor then runs
> as expected.
>
> Can somebody explain the delay and how to possibly avoid it?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Alexander
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