Re: [VM] Should `compile' always be visible?

2009-03-03 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: OK. Still I feel that it would be great to have `compile' and `compile-file' available in the default environment -- they're in the same category as `load', `eval', etc. It would also be good for scripts. But I could be convinced otherwise :) Not sure I'm

Re: [VM] Should `compile' always be visible?

2009-02-26 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 25 Feb 2009 22:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: The 1.8 results were against the Fedora guile, and the vm results against libguile/.libs/lt-guile, run inside pre-inst-guile-env. The issue is that `pre-inst-guile-env' adds overhead, which may not be negligible when measuring

Re: [VM] Should `compile' always be visible?

2009-02-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Wed 25 Feb 2009 22:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: The 1.8 results were against the Fedora guile, and the vm results against libguile/.libs/lt-guile, run inside pre-inst-guile-env. The issue is that `pre-inst-guile-env' adds overhead,

Re: [VM] Should `compile' always be visible?

2009-02-24 Thread Andy Wingo
Yo, On Tue 24 Feb 2009 00:44, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Yeah, dunno. It would be great to have `compile' in the toplevel environment. OTOH it takes time. Just to be clear: I wasn't so much concerned about load time, but rather about namespace pollution and fuzzy dependencies

Re: [VM] Should `compile' always be visible?

2009-02-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Fri 20 Feb 2009 01:45, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Do we really need it? Guile `master' doesn't put any autoload in the global namespace, only in `guile-user-module', thus only affecting the REPL. Yeah, dunno. It would be great to