On Wed 16 Nov 2011 06:00, ri...@happyleptic.org writes: > According to the doc, guile currently maintain 3 evaluators: > > - the new VM > - an evaluator written in scheme > - the old C evaluator, used for bootstrapping the compiler. > > That's a lot of code just to bootstrap the compiler. Why not bootstrapping > the > compiler from either previous installed guile or (as fall-back) some provided > .go bytecode instead? Wouldn't that make guile code significantly simpler to > maintain and faster to compile?
No :) If I bootstrap Guile-X from Guile-Y, I have to make sure that Guile-X's code can load in Guile-Y -- not trivial -- and I have to trust the output of Guile-Y. If I bootstrap Guile-X from GCC, I have to trust GCC. I trust GCC more than Guile-Y. You can use GUILE_FOR_BUILD if you want to speed things up. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
