On Tue 04 Aug 2009 18:17, Daniel Kraft <d...@domob.eu> writes: > Andy Wingo wrote: >> Don't conjecture, profile ;-) > > I'd like to do so, but it seems that Guile does not include a profiler, > does it? A search turned up some patch/code, but I didn't get the > impression it would work very well -- do you have some hints, getting > some real profiling would be very useful, indeed!
If you download guile-lib from git, (statprof) works well. >> Also, disassembly is your friend here. > > Guess I'll have to get a little more proficient with the VM to make real > use of it, though I already used it a little to check that certain elisp > code compiles to the same assembly as the equivalent Scheme one (where I > expected it to be so). It's not that bad :) But I'll be looking into your branch tomorrow, so we can poke it together. Peace, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/